Health care and information ethics : protecting fundamental human rights / Audrey R. Chapman, editor.

Kansas City, MO : Sheed & Ward, [1997], ©1997.

482 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Developing health information systems consistent with human rights criteria ; Human rights framework / Audrey R. Chapman -- Issues and methodologies for monitoring universality / Doug Samuelson and Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. -- Monitoring welfare and women's health / Trude Bennett -- Improving health data among American Indians and Alaska Natives : an approach from the Pacific Northwest / Jonathan Sugarman ... [et al.] -- Drawing samples from hidden, underserved and vulnerable populations : methods, applications, and ethical issues / James Fisher, Jichuan Wang, Joseph Wagner -- Using state-level hospital discharge data bases : a source of race/ethnicity data to monitor minority and special populations / Barbara S. Kurtzig -- Designing an information system to monitor population access to care, health, and health care use / Noralou Roos ... [et al.] -- Supporting the delivery of preventative services through informations systems : a Manitoba example / Leslie L. Roos ... [et al.] -- Issues regarding appropriate uses of outcomes data in monitoring university and nondiscrimination in access to health care / Doug Samuelson and R. Clifton Bailey -- Introduction and overview : privacy, nondiscrimination and consent / Paula J. Bruening -- Linking health records : human rights concerns / Fritz Scheuren -- Guidelines and mechanisms for protecting privacy in medical data used for research / Robert Ellis Smith -- Data for health : privacy and access standards for a health care information infrastructure / George T. Duncan -- Medical data protection and privacy in the United States : theory and reality / Vincent M. Brannigan and Bernd Neier -- Privacy of health care data : what does the public know? how much do they care? / Eleanor Singer, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs -- Guidelines and mechanisms for regulating access to data : private health insurance issues / Mary Ann Baily.

Includes bibliographical references and index.