Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
ISSN
1097-4768
Publisher
University of Maryland School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In 2006, New York City began a mandatory reporting system for laboratories to submit blood sugar (A1c) test results (primarily for diabetes) to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene without the patient's consent. This article examines whether this new program is an innovative way to improve New Yorkers' health, an invasion of medical privacy, or usurpation of the physician's role. The registry is an example of public health initiatives in chronic diseases, which challenge the limits of laws governing medicine care and public health programs by blurring the historical boundaries between them.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
Medicine and Public Health: Crossing Legal Boundaries
,
in
10
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
121
(2007).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/359
Comments
Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 07-13