Public health authority is an important legal power that allows governments to take actions to protect the public’s health. However, recent changes in public health authority may affect how health professionals can conduct their work to prevent infectious diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis.
To help state and local health departments understand trends related to public health authority, ChangeLab Solutions has developed How Recent Changes to Public Health Authority Affect Prevention of Infectious Diseases, a fact sheet that describes how public health authority can change over time, with examples of recent changes in response to COVID-19 and how such changes might affect infectious disease prevention.
10/16/2024