Public health laboratory
A public health laboratory is a laboratory that serves regional, national, or in some cases global communities by providing clinical diagnostic testing, environmental testing, disease diagnosis and evaluation, emergency response support, applied research, regulation and standards recommendations, laboratory training, and other essential services to the communities they serve.[1][2][3]
A public health laboratory is unlike the average commercial laboratory because it is "integrated into the broader public health system."[1] The public health laboratory must typically meet more stringent requirements, including adhering to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) (for labs in the United States) as well as regulations laid out by the departments, agencies, and other regulatory bodies of local, state, and/or national governments. Finally, the private medical laboratory focuses on tests focused on diagnosing the diseases of individuals, while the functions of the public health laboratory serve entire populations.[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Becker, Scott; Perlman, Eva J.; Jenkins, Wiley (ed.) (2010). "Chapter 1: An Introduction to Public Health Laboratories". Public Health Laboratories: Analysis, Operations, and Management. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 01–14. ISBN 0763771023. http://books.google.com/books?id=6SDqL72zPRUC.
- ↑ Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (2003). "Chapter 3: The Governmental Public Health Structure". The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century. National Academies Press. pp. 136–146. ISBN 0309133181. http://books.google.com/books?id=qa8XYZQprt0C.
- ↑ "About Public Health Labs". Association of Public Health Laboratories. http://www.aphl.org/AboutAPHL/aboutphls/Pages/default.aspx. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ↑ Becker, Scott J.; Blank, Eric C.; Martin, Robert; Skeels, Michael; Novick, Lloyd F. (ed.); Mays, Glen P. (ed.) (2005). "Chapter 27: Public Health Laboratory Administration". Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-based Management. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 623–627. ISBN 0763740780. http://books.google.com/books?id=bFBPMcQe6ogC.
