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DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages S65-S72Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.18
Keywords
legal protections; liability; emergency declarations; nuclear detonation
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- US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
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This article summarizes public health legal issues that need to be considered in preparing for and responding to nuclear detonation. Laws at the federal, state, territorial, local, tribal, and community levels can have a significant impact on the response to an emergency involving a nuclear detonation and the allocation of scarce resources for affected populations. An understanding of the breadth of these laws, the application of federal, state, and local law, and how each may change in an emergency, is critical to an effective response. Laws can vary from 1 geographic area to the next and may vary in an emergency, affording waivers or other extraordinary actions under federal, state, or local emergency powers. Public health legal requirements that are commonly of concern and should be examined for flexibility, reciprocity, and emergency exceptions include liability protections for providers; licensing and credentialing of providers; consent and privacy protections for patients; occupational safety and employment protections for providers; procedures for obtaining and distributing medical countermeasures and supplies; property use, condemnation, and protection; restrictions on movement of individuals in an emergency area; law enforcement; and reimbursement for care. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2011;5:S65-S72)
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