The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) recognizes that infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, influenza, and chicken pox continue to threaten the health of the public. The NHPHA recognizes that cooperation and coordination among a wide range of public and private organizations is needed to effectively prevent, detect and respond to emerging and re-emerging infections. Priorities in this area include:

• Increased support for disease prevention and control activities including improved surveillance for emerging and reemerging diseases;
• Support for laboratory detection of emerging and reemerging diseases;
• Transparent and ethical policies for the distribution and administration of vaccines and other medications;
• Transparent and ethical policies regarding the utilization of isolation and quarantine;
• Adoption of antibiotic resistance reduction policies ; and
• Ongoing public education on effective prevention of infectious disease

Resources:

Fidler David P, Lawrence O. Gostin and Howard Markel, “Through the Quarantine Looking Glass: Drug-resistant Tuberculosis and Public Health Governance, Law, and Ethics,” Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics 35:4 (Winter 2007) 616-28.

Fiore, Anthony E., et al., “Prevention and Control of Influenza. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2007,” MMWR 56:RR06 (July 13, 2007) 1-54. http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...ml/rr5606a1.htm

Hamilton, Carol Dukes, et al., “Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis:  Are We Learning from History or Repeating It?", Clinical Infectious Disease 45:3 (August 2007) 338-342.

Kroger, Andrew T., et al. “General Recommendation on Immunization” MMWR 55:RR15 (December 1, 2006) / 1-48. http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...ml/rr5515a1.htm

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Summary of Notifiable Diseases-United States, 2005” MMWR 54:53 (March 30, 2007).  http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...F/wk/mm5453.pdf

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Comprehensive HIV Prevention;  Essential Components of a Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Domestic HIV, 2006,” http://www.cdc.gov/hiv...mp_hiv_prev.pdf

Lo, Bernard and Katz Mitchell H., “Clinical Decision Making during Public Health Emergencies: Ethical Considerations,” Annals of Internal Medicine 143:7 (October 2005):493-498.