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Isolation and Quarantine: Issues to Consider

Keywords / Description:

Isolation and Quarantine: Issues to Consider is a guidance document that provides a checklist to help public health jurisdictions identify the essential aspects of a plan for isolation and quarantine implementation. The checklist outlines important areas to consider when creating a plan, such as:

• legal issues;
  
• implementation of the plan;
  
• ongoing surveillance;
  
• social support; and,
• risk communication.

This document was created by the NACCHO Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Committee.

Toolkit:

EQUIPh Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Surveillance

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

NACCHO

Submitted:

01/10/2006

Modified:

01/10/2006

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