Legal and Ethical Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza

1918年流感大流行导致全球4000多万人死亡。 任何重复都可能给澳大利亚和该地区带来毁灭性的社会和经济代价。社区对流行病医疗管理中的检疫或其他限制措施的信心取决于在保护公共卫生与公民工作和日常生活权利之间取得平衡。 通过研究澳大利亚和亚洲地区现有的人类大流行性流感规划的充分性，该项目将有助于进行必要的法律改革和政策制定，以使社区对国家大流行病规划中体现的伦理和公共政策平衡以及支持这些规划的法律和实践产生信心。

Over 40 million people in the world died in the 1918 Influenza pandemic. Any repetition could have devastating social and economic costs for Australia and the Region. Community confidence in quarantine or other restrictions in the medical management of pandemics depends on balancing protection of public health against the rights of citizens to go about their work and daily lives. By studying the adequacy of existing human pandemic influenza planning in Australia and the Asian region, this project will contribute to law reform and policy development needed to command community confidence in the ethical and public policy balances embodied in national pandemic plans, and the laws and practices which support them.