Presidential Address on Some Aspects of the Problem of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease, by THOMAS CARNWATH, D.S.O., M.B., D.Sc., D.P.H., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. (Fellow.)

1935 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-95
2021 ◽  
pp. 154-196
Author(s):  
Jacek Jagielski ◽  
Piotr Gołaszewski

The article discusses the legal and administrative regulations regarding the prevention and control of infectious diseases. The author puts forward and justifies the thesis that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19 disease) has exposed significant imperfections (and partly deficiencies) of the above-mentioned regulations, and at the same time revealed the effects of – sometimes insufficient – theoretical reflection on administrative law and the methods of reception of its assumptions and theoretical structures into the provisions of this law. Against this background, particular attention was paid to the construction of the special state as a (separate and independent) institution of material administrative law, as well as to issues concerning, inter alia, administrative regulations, general administrative acts, administrative enforcement of non-pecuniary obligations, administrative proceedings, criminal-administrative law, and social (digital) exclusion in administrative law. The considerations are summed up by the statement that administrative law – both in practical and theoretical terms – has turned out to be insufficiently prepared for an epidemic of an infectious disease in general, and even more so for an epidemic of a scale such as that caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.


2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 993-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Carlos Félix Lana ◽  
Evaldo Pinheiro Amaral ◽  
Fernanda Moura Lanza ◽  
Andrigo Neves e Silva Lopes de Saldanha

Leprosy is potentially debilitating. The present study aims at describing and assessing the occurrence of physical disabilities in cases of leprosy in the population of the Vale do Jequitinhonha/MG, in the period 1998-2006. It is an epidemiological descriptive study and the data were collected from the Leprosy Notification Forms. This information was processed using EPI-INFO and analyzed, based on the indicators recommended by the Ministry of Health and the force of association between variables. Of the 1461 cases notified, 46.2% were diagnosed with some kind of physical disability (12.1% degree II). Of these, 59.1% were male; 96.9% of the people were over 15 years old, and 93.2% were multibacillary (p < 0.001). A hidden prevalence of 433 cases was estimated in the period 2002-2006. The results show that the diagnosis of Hansen's disease in the region is late, revealing the need to intensify prevention and control.


2008 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha ◽  
Ruth Lynfield ◽  
Kathleen G. Julian ◽  
Chris A. Van Beneden ◽  
Henriette de Valk

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