Public health trumps over all other explanations, including individual rights. Not to say individual rights should not be honored, but when public health is at stake, state right’s takes on priority. State rights can impede on an individual’s right to autonomy, privacy, freedom, equality, and discrimination, but that doesn’t mean individual rights are not important. Public health is not only in place to protect the public, but to carry out the rights …show more content…
We now offer immunizations to prevent exposure to life-threatening diseases, that once plagued our communities. Preventive services are also offered to allow physicians to capture abnormalities in their patients thus protecting the community, results are then sent to the appropriate agency for further investigation. Providers are to “promptly detect and report persons who have contracted, protect close contacts of patients with contagious diseases (Taylor, Nolan & Blumberg, 2005)”, from further spread of the infectious