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Legal Information
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This link will take
you to www.ncanimalcontrol.unc.edu, a website with articles,
outlines, FAQs, and other information about animal control
law. |
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Topics include reporting
and controlling HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases,
bloodborne pathogen exposures, enforcing communicable
disease laws, isolation and quarantine, and bioterrorism. |
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Topics include well
and on-site wastewater regulation, food and lodging
sanitation, childhood lead poisoning prevention, and
pest management. |
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This link will take
you to www.medicalprivacy.unc.edu, a website with articles,
outlines, FAQs, and other information about the HIPAA
privacy rule and NC medical confidentiality laws. |
| Immigrant
Health |
Topics include immigrants’
eligibility for local health department services and
the legal duty to provide language assistance to limited-English
proficient persons (Title VI). |
| Jail Health |
Topics include legal
duty to provide medical care to inmates, paying for
inmate health care, communicable diseases in jails,
confidentiality of inmate medical information, and managing
medications in the jail. |
| Medical Treatment of
Minors |
Topics include consent
for minor’s medical treatment, confidentiality
of minor’s medical information, and issues involving
county departments of social services (such as child
abuse reports and investigations). |
| NC Public Health System |
Topics include remedies
(including public health nuisance and imminent hazard
abatement), the powers and duties of local boards of
health and local health directors, mandated services,
and public health authorities and other alternative
models for providing public health services in North
Carolina. |
| NC
Legislative Updates |
Annual summaries of
significant public health legislation. |
| Smoking
Regulation |
Topics include local
government’s authority to regulate smoking in
public places. |
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