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mandatory reporting

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mandatory reporting
The obligatory reporting of a particular condition to local or state health authorities, as required for communicable disease and substance abuse Infectious disease State boards of health maintain records and collect data resulting from MR of communicable or other diseases that represent a hazard to the public. See Reportable disease Psychiatry Physicians must report abuse or suspected abuse of children, spouses, or the elderly, and are granted prosecutorial immunity if they report their suspicions in good faith. See Abuse.


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A mandatory reporting regime across Canada will strengthen our ability to protect our children from sexual predators and help police rescue these young victims, and prosecute the criminals responsible.
A mandatory reporting regime across Canada will strengthen our ability to protect our children from sexual predators and help police rescue these young victims, and prosecute the criminals responsible.
What is interesting is that some of the states that have mandatory reporting don't provide full legal protection to the physician doing the reporting," Dr.
 
 
 
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