Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties
2018

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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties addresses the legal issues concerning the measures to detect communicable diseases, regulations to control communicable diseases, methods for decontamination, emergency legal preparedness, privacy, and potential sources of liability. This digest provides a checklist that airport attorneys and other staff can use to help prepare, plan, and coordinate with their partners in response to a threat of a communicable disease.

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60 pages · 8.5 x 11 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-39052-4
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-48321-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25227

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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ACRP Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties 1-1
Contents 2-2
I. Introduction 3-4
II. Legal Considerations for Communicable Disease Response Planning 5-13
III. Legal Authorities for Roles and Responsibilities 14-14
IV. Ensuring Privacy and Confidentiality 15-20
V. The Changing Legal Environment During Emergencies 21-26
VI. Potential Liability and Protections 27-30
Contributions 31-31
Acronyms 32-32
Glossary 33-34
Appendix A: Stakeholders 35-35
Appendix B: State and Local Quarantine and Isolation Laws of the 10 Busiest Airports 36-48
Appendix C: Checklist of Legal Issues to Consider in Developing Airport Communicable Disease Preparedness Plans 49-56
Acknowledgments 57-60

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Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties (2018)

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