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After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
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Identify potential ethical concerns regarding surveys of health.
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Design an informed consent form for an observational epidemiologic study.
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Discuss strategies to increase the security of protected health information.
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Cite behaviors, positive and negative, which reflect the ethical practice of managerial epidemiology and their implication upon the delivery of health services across the continuum of care.
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Oleske, D.M. (2009). Ethics and Managerial Epidemiology Practice. In: Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0164-4_12
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