"Issue of public health or safety" means matters that involve promoting and protecting public health, including:
- (1) preventing disease and illness, and controlling the causes of epidemic, infectious, communicable and other diseases affecting public health;
- (2) responding to acute, chronic or any other illness, disease or health hazard considered by the department to be dangerous, important or likely to affect the public health;
- (3) the assessment, collection and reporting of information on causes of injury, sickness, death and disability within the state;
- (4) disclosing and addressing hazards posing a threat to public health including physical injury, mental health, trauma, suicide or similar concerns to authorized individuals, agencies and institutions; or
- (5) efforts to improve the provision of safe and effective health care, health monitoring and management, patient oversight and related matters.
KEY: medical examiner, records
Date of Last Change: December 29, 2023
Notice of Continuation: April 4, 2024
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 26B-1-202; 26B-8-217