Revision of the European Data Protection Directive: opportunity or threat for public health monitoring?
Open Access
- 23 July 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 21 (6), 684-687
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckr100
Abstract
The link between public health monitoring on one hand and data protection legislation on the other may not be immediately clear to all. Nevertheless, it has a strong relation with the conditions required to build and correctly operate high quality, sustainable public health information systems.Keywords
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