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As your fourth assignment toward completion of the Session Long Project, you will need to discuss the fragile balance between the need for public health agencies to acquire data and the demand for security of sensitive information. Review the article Ethics in Public Health Research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC23748...

As public health director in a small county, you must maintain records that track diabetes rates, the incidence of HIV, and immunization records. Recently, there have been at least two breaches when computers were stolen from employees or an outside hacker broke into the system and downloaded data.

Now you must write an open letter addressing the community and explain how the department is going to protect the information. In your letter, address the following questions.

  1. Explain why the health department collects this information conveying the idea of how it serves the greater good.
  2. Discuss the public’s interest in privacy and why this is important in our society.
  3. Discuss why the department needs to infringe on the community's privacy.
  4. Explain how the department might ensure greater security.
  5. Be sure to identify at least one applicable regulation, statute, or source that supports the ability of the department to collect this information.

SLP Assignment Expectations

  1. Limit your response to 3 pages, not including title and reference pages.
  2. Be sure to utilize at least 3-4 scholarly references to support your discussions.
  1. Be sure to properly cite your references within the text of your assignment and listed at the end.
  2. Be sure to apply critical thinking skills to the write-up of your assignment, especially for numbers 1, and 2 above.

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Running head: PATIENT CONSENT

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Patient consent
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PATIENT CONSENT

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Patient consent

THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
4458721-54128,
31/5/2018.

Dear All,
RE: PROTECTING PATIENT INFORMATION
Why the health department collects this information conveying the idea of how it serves the
greater good
As a way of providing quality services to patients, there is the need to gather information,
record it and store in computer systems for future reference. The collection of the different types
of information also aids in keeping track of the common types of illnesses which affect the
people in the society. The health department must have all information related to the patients
served in every healthcare facility and this aids in determining the quality of services provided.
Some of you in the society have shown the existence and prevalence of chronic illnesses and the
department has to determine the mortality rate associated with every type of disease (Myers,
Frieden, Bherwani & Henning, 2008). The information collected from each of the patients has an
essential role which it plays in ensuring that the health of every person is catered for by the
government. The information assists the department in planning for the different ways through
which it will handle the common illnesses by implementing preventative measures and availing
medications that will eliminate their spread. The info...


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