Public health and data protection: an inevitable collision or potential for a meeting of minds?
Open Access
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 30 (6) , 1221-1225
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/30.6.1221
Abstract
‘Public health is the arena in which clinical medicine, epidemiology, management, politics, and the law all meet—or perhaps more accurately, collide.‘1Keywords
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