Health Screening

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STANDARDISATION OF HEALTH SCRENING AND IMMUNIZATION ON AN
INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM
Health screening has been a preventive and productive measure in improving health outcomes of one and all. Acting in the interest of individual and community at large regular health screening and immunization have been issues of controversy within the United States with divergent legal aspects varying across states. Especially laws and regulations in relation to immunization are different in individual states of USA. Adding to which immigrant health regulations are well settled in the recent past but not put into effect.
Immigrant health regulations are into the jurisdiction of US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs. The entity is ought to enforce
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Restriction of entry into united states was not added effectively to federal immigration laws until 1891. This reflects strength of the tradition of federal deference in that area to regulation of state migration, exercised for most of the nineteenth century mechanism of quarantine. The term "quarantine" derives from a forty-day period and cleansing imposed on arriving travelers and their sure that they were not infected; the practice originated tenth century as a measure to prevent plague.
Quarantine measures were applied to acute diseases with high mortality rates especially smallpox, yellow fever, typhus and cholera. Passengers and crew could be isolated on board the vessel or removed quarantine station, hospital, or "lazaretto." Asymptomatic passengers were isolated for observation; those already infected would cover, and in either die or recover or in either case cease to spread the infection. In the meantime, however, they might infect quarantine passengers detained in quarantine. During quarantine, the vessel itself, its cargo, and the personal possessions of the passengers might also be subjected to treatment intended as
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Abiding to Law of State and ethics it is that minimal requirements of medical screening and acceptance of respective documentation must be carried out at port of entry which is purely lacking in the present scenario, where only visa and passport documentation is thoroughly inspected at port of entry. This loop hole can lead to an outbreak of a communicable disease thereby placing public health at a great risk.
With reference, to manual published by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which clearly states that immigration officer at the time of visa issuance must order a medical and immunization documentation which would be a prerequisite step for acceptance of entry into the US7. This step as of year, 2015 is not put into effect supporting which are many reasons which include lack of funding, access to care, fraud ability, regional differences in standard of care and medical protocols around the