We linked provincial SARS-CoV-2 laboratory testing, reportable disease, COVID-19 vaccination, and health administrative databases using unique encoded identifiers and analyzed them at ICES, a not-for-profit provincial research institute.17 ICES is a prescribed entity under Ontario’s Personal Health ...
INSPQ, Lyme disease and diseases transmitted by ticks. https://www.inspq.qc.ca/zoonoses/maladie-de-lyme. Accessed 24 June 2019. Public Health Ontario, Ontario Lyme disease map 2019. https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/lyme-disease-risk-area-map-2019. Manitoba Health, Senior...
While there is always a balance between individual and collective rights, public health law provides sweeping powers in the context of a public health emergency. Some ethicists and policy makers have proposed that the rights of the individual, particularly the right to privacy of one's personal he...
Salmonellosis is a Reportable Disease under provincial legislation and all infections confirmed by hospital, private, and public health laboratories must be reported to the local public health units for follow-up. Figure 1 Ontario, by Health Region, 2011. Full size image Our study used all of ...
Privacy concerns by providers have been a barrier to disclosing patient information for public health purposes. This is the case even for mandated notifiable disease reporting. In the context of a pandemic it has been argued that the public good should s
Reportable diseases/conditions in Florida. 2014. http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/disease-reporting-and-management/_documents/reportable-diseases/_documents/guidelines-health-care-2014-06-26.pdf. Gelbard A, Donovan DT, Ongkasuwan J, Nouraei SA, Sandhu G, Benninger MS, et al...
[Ontario’s web-based reporting system for reportable diseases] and they answer no, no, no, and at the end, you feel the hesitation in their voice especially when it’s sexual contact or intercourse". In addition, participants explained that cases often viewed themselves as good hand washers...