Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, Revised and Expanded Second Edition (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)

Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, Revised and Expanded Second Edition (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Review

Public Health Law, first published in 2000, has been widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the start of the twenty-first century. Lawrence O. Gostin's definition was based on the notion that government bears a responsibility for advancing the health and well-being of the general population, and the book developed a rich understanding of the government's powers and duties while showing law to be an effective tool in the realization of a healthier and safer population. In this second edition, Gostin analyzes the major health threats of our times, from emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism to chronic diseases caused by obesity.

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy Review

As one of the newest offerings in the Jones and Bartlett Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Health Policy and Law provides students of public health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health policy and law. Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers understand the broad context of health policy and law, the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Think of this textbook as an extended manual introductory, concise, and straightforward to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, and thus as a jumping off point for discussion, reflection, research, and analysis.

Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees: Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Safety

Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees: Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Safety Review

Police officers, firefighters, and other public safety workers face exceptionally high rates of injury and fatality relative to the general workforce. This document provides an analysis of the risk factors associated with different aspects of public safety occupations, to help policymakers in their efforts to improve the health and safety of these employees.

Populations, Public Health, and the Law

Populations, Public Health, and the Law Review

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Law plays a crucial role in protecting the health of populations. Whether the public health threat is bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, obesity, or lung cancer, law is an essential tool for addressing the problem. Yet for many decades, courts and lawyers have frequently overlooked law's critical importance to public health. "Populations, Public Health, and the Law" seeks to remedy that omission.The book demonstrates why public health protection is a vital objective for the law and presents a new population-based approach to legal analysis that can help law achieve its public health mission while remaining true to its own core values. By looking at a diverse range of topics, including food safety, death and dying, and pandemic preparedness, Wendy E. Parmet shows how a population-based legal analysis that recalls the importance of populations and uses the tools of public health can enhance legal decision making while protecting both public health and the rights and liberties of individuals and their communities.

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• Health Law & Bioethics: Cases
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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity

Public Health, Ethics, and Equity Review

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This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives.

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• Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)
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• Modern Epidemiology

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Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World

Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World Review

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Globalization has immersed all of humanity in a single germ pool. There are no health sanctuaries in a globalizing world. InGlobal Health Governance, Obijiofor Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability to explore the globalization of disease, in what is paradoxically a global village and a divided world.

Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, Global Health Governance offers a holistic approach to global health governance involving a multiplicity of actors: nation-states, international organizations, civil society organizations, and private actors. Aginam articulates modest proposals under the rubric of communitarian globalism, a paradigm that strives to meet the ideals of 'law of humanity.' These proposals project a humane global health order where all of humanity is inexorably tied into a global compact and where the health of one nation-state rises and falls with the health of others.

International law—with its bold claims to universal protection of human rights and human dignity—is an indispensable governance tool for the reconstruction of damaged public health trust in the relations of nations and peoples.

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Jul 27, 2011 02:44:36

Dental Public Health and Research: Contemporary Practice for the Dental Hygienist (3rd Edition)

Dental Public Health and Research: Contemporary Practice for the Dental Hygienist (3rd Edition) Review

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Written to reflect the changing role of the dental hygiene practitioner in the dental care delivery system, this brand new edition of Dental Public Health and Research 3/e provides students with the key tools needed to effectively position and practice dental hygiene in the public health setting. This book expands the knowledge base necessary for dental hygiene practitioners in the 21st century. Some new and exciting features of this updated edition include:

 

The chapter on dental care funding is expanded to focus on the current issues in dental care financing and the government’s role in this area. 

A chapter on the importance of collaboration in dental care, building coalitions to help advocate for the oral health of all people and an introductory discussion on grant writing are included. 

The chapter on cultural diversity follows the chapter on target populations. 

The research unit is greatly expanded to provide detailed information on the study of dental hygiene research.   Areas of expansion include evidenced-based research, ethics in research, roles of government and private entities in dental research, oral epidemiology, and the measurement of oral diseases and conditions. 

Did you Know? boxes serve as a mental break for readers by providing interesting “gee whiz” information.

 

This book is a perfect resource for dental hygiene practitioners.

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Who Is Nursing Them? Is It Us: Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses (Work, Health and Environment) (Work, Health and Environment Series)

Who Is Nursing Them? Is It Us: Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses (Work, Health and Environment) (Work, Health and Environment Series) Review

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ABOUT THE BOOK This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where HIV/AIDS prevalence is among the highest in the world. Just before the epidemic took off in the mid-1990s, South Africa achieved independence from apartheid/colonial rule, raising hopes that conditions would improve for the poor. HIV/AIDS, and a turn toward neoliberal policy, hindered this process. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, set against a historical backdrop, this book tells the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period. Nurses and hospital managers describe significantly different settings from a historically neglected rural district hospital to a high-tech, high-level care facility operating as a private-public partnership. Despite the disparities, nurses' occupational health dilemmas were largely the same. While neoliberal policies led to disinvestment and privatization that created workplace inequalities among public sector nurses (though all were low paid), stigma and denial about HIV/AIDS consistently hindered workplace health and safety programs. Even so, nurses and public health managers make a strong case about what is needed to support the South African public health system and the people who rely on it. In so doing they point the way toward a labor/work environment approach to a global public health crisis. Intended Audience: Academics in public health, occupational health and safety, labor and nursing history, and public policy; readers interested in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and health systems development.

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Jul 09, 2011 16:38:07

Genomics and Public Health: Legal and Socio-Ethical Perspectives

Genomics and Public Health: Legal and Socio-Ethical Perspectives Review

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When genomics and public health are integrated into society, it will create as many responsibilities as rights for citizens, researchers, and decision makers. Indeed, the expression of genetic risk factors in both common and infectious diseases is of great interest to public health. Policy development in this area needs to tackle crucial themes such as: research and its application to public health and genomic medicine, the authority of the state, the right to privacy, and the roles and responsibilities of citizens and the State. Considering the current fears of a world-wide pandemic, this book is a timely and insightful exploration of both research possibilities and the role of the state. It will help to understand the limits of possible state access to bio-banks and data. It examines the issue of the possible use of newborn screening programmes by public health authorities. It also attempts to understand the protection of individual privacy and the public interest in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. Moreover, do citizens have a say? Will public attitudes be different towards research in public health genomics compared to genetic testing?

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