This outstanding text and reference provides health professionals & students with a balanced, comprehensive, highly readable survey of the legal concepts and controversies affecting them today. Avoiding unnecessarily technical language, it lucidly explains basic legal principles and theories, examines current issues and their implications, and probes future legal trends. Throughout, each chapter offers a complete, self-contained introdu ction to a medicolegal topic-including invaluable endnotes that cite references, clarify perspectives, and suggest further readings. A unique appendix also explains how to use law library facilities to best advantage.

Health and the Law: A Primer for Health Professionals

Christoffel, Tom

Health & Medical Law

Free Press

Health and the Law

Legal Self-Help

Up against the American myth

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Injury--both violent and unintentional--is the greatest threat to public health in America today. Many, if not most, injury prevention measures involve the use of law. These laws range from federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards to state seat-belt use laws to city smoke detector ordinances. Protecting the Public: Legal Issues in Injury Prevention is the first comprehensive study of this important area of the law. Written by renowned experts in the field, the work describes the strengths and weaknesses of injury prevention laws. It examines how the courts have dealt with a variety of legal challenges to injury prevention laws, including challenges based on the laws' apparent interference with the free exercise of individual rights. Relevant issues such as whether or not compulsory motorcycle helmet laws violate constitutional rights, and whether gun control laws reduce gun violence are addressed in this book. The book also demonstrates how civil litigation in the form of private lawsuits is sometimes an alternative means of inducing injury prevention measures. The effectiveness of injury prevention laws are also reviewed. Public policy issues are explored and the philosophical and economic objections to such laws are explained. Throughout the book, Christoffel and Teret have skillfully interwoven excerpts from legal opinions and research studies into their lucid text. Their book will be an invaluable guide for lawyers, health professionals, public health administrators, policymakers, community activists and all those involved in protecting the public through injury prevention laws.

Protecting the Public: Legal Issues in Injury Prevention

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Teret, Stephen P.

Exercise & Fitness

Oxford University Press

Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies, Second Edition presents the complex nature of injuries and violence but provides this information in a highly comprehensible manner. The authors’ devotion to advocacy for the prevention of injuries, both unintentional and intentional, makes this title an essential read for both public health students and public health professionals.

Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies

Gallagher, Susan

Jones& Bartlett Learning

This text provides students with the practical skills and strategies necessary to effectively plan, promote, implement, and operate effective public health injury prevention programs. The prevention of unintentional injuries, especially childhood and adolescent injuries, is emphasized as the major focus of public health agency injury prevention efforts. (Injury ranks third among causes of death overall, and it constitutes the second most costly health problem in the U.S., after heart disease.)

Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies

Gallagher, Susan Scavo

ASPEN PUB.

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