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Current health policy is required to respond to a constantly
changing social and political environment characterised,
particularly in Europe, by ageing populations, increased migration,
and growing inequalities in health and services. With health
systems under increasing strain there is a sense that we need to
seek new means of determining health policy. Much political debate
focuses on managerial issues such as the levels of health funding
and the setting and missing of targets. Meanwhile our moral
imperatives, our values and principles, go relatively unexamined.
What are these values? Can we agree their validity and salience?
How do we manage the paradox of competing goods? Can we find new
ways of talking about, and resolving, our conflicting values and
competing priorities in order to create sound, appropriate, and
just health policies for the 21st Century? Written by leading
health policy makers and academics from many countries,
"Constructive Conversations about Health" examines in depth the
underlying values and principles of health policy, and posits a
more enlightened public and political discourse. The book will be
invaluable for those involved in health policy making and
governance, politicians, healthcare managers, researchers,
ethicists, health and social affairs media, health rights and
patient participation groups. 'The literature on health policy is
vast. On offer are models of health services, economic theory,
management theory, disquisitions on ethical principles, social
analyses, literally thousands of publications. In a globalised and
electronically networked world, this literature has already
generated its own particular language, a policy jargon replete with
terms that look deceptively familiar, terms that will be much in
evidence in what now follows, terms whose meanings require our
closest attention.' - Marshall Marinker.
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston,
Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards
created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal
governments should play in protecting the public from these
threats. James B. McSwain's Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how
officials in these cities created standards based on technical,
scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically
workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel.
Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through
protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and
fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the
regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal
governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while
still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum
industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as
fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to
adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance
associations and standards organisations such as the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and
the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of
such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an
overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United
States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising
ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk
management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or
mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to
reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and
fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers,
municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management
literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a
vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly 6,000 workers
were killed on the job in 2006. Presenting a comprehensive survey
of occupational safety and health in the United States,
Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice
focuses on recognizing, preventing, and treating work-related and
environmentally induced injuries and diseases. Drawing from their
thirty-five years of experience in the management of public health
programs and occupational safety and health management, the authors
provide graduate and undergraduate students with important linkages
between preventive public health approaches and occupational safety
and health needs.
The field of occupational health and safety constantly changes,
especially as it pertains to biomedical research. New infectious
hazards are of particular importance at nonhuman-primate
facilities. For example, the discovery that B virus can be
transmitted via a splash on a mucous membrane raises new concerns
that must be addressed, as does the discovery of the Reston strain
of Ebola virus in import quarantine facilities in the U.S. The risk
of such infectious hazards is best managed through a flexible and
comprehensive Occupational Health and Safety Program (OHSP) that
can identify and mitigate potential hazards. Occupational Health
and Safety in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates is intended as
a reference for vivarium managers, veterinarians, researchers,
safety professionals, and others who are involved in developing or
implementing an OHSP that deals with nonhuman primates. The book
lists the important features of an OHSP and provides the tools
necessary for informed decision-making in developing an optimal
program that meets all particular institutional needs. Table of
Contents Front Matter Executive Summary 1. Introduction and
Overview 2. Background and Context for Occupational Health and
Safety in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates 3. Identifying
Infectious Hazards Associated with the Use of Nonhuman Primates in
Research 4. Identifying Noninfectious Hazards 5. Risk Assessment:
Evaluating Risks to Human Health and Safety 6. Occupational Health
and Safety Regulations and Recommendations Applicable to
Nonhuman-Primate Research Facilities 7. Risk Management: The
Principles Underlying the Design and Implementation of an
Occupational Health and Safety Plan 8. Personnel Qualifications,
Training, and Continuing Education 9. Postexposure Medical
Treatment in Nonhuman-Primate Facilities References Appendix A:
Workshop Speakers Appendix B: Committee Member Biographies
Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry:
State of the art and future challenges presents an overview of a
wide ranging scientific, engineering, policy, regulatory, and legal
issues facing the nuclear power industry. Editor Victor Nian and
his team of contributors deliver a much needed review of the latest
developments in safety, security and safeguards ("Three S's") as
well as other related and important subject matters within and
beyond the nuclear power industry. This book is particularly
insightful to countries with an interest in developing a nuclear
power industry as well as countries where education to improve
society's opinion on nuclear energy is crucial to its future
success. Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power
Industry covers the foundations of nuclear power production as well
as the benefits and impacts of radiation to human society,
international conventions, treaties, and standards on the "Three
S's", emergency preparedness and response, and civil liability in
the event of a nuclear accident.
This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and
maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education
and research organisations. The obstacles include high staff
turnover and an uncertain and constantly evolving research
environment, small groups lacking unified management structure,
deadline time pressures, restricted funding models and existing
"old school" culture. Often the Health and Safety specialists and
personnel managers in these organisations find themselves
reiterating the same information, which gets lost as soon as the
new cohort of workers arrives. Providing insight into methods of
managing health and safety, training, and supervision, which help
to build a strong and reliable health and safety system, this book
is a collection of "best practices" from experienced safety
professionals and researchers in Europe and the United States.
These experiences demonstrate how health and safety professionals
have overcome these issues and provide readers with ideas and
models they can use in their own organisations. The information
contained within is aimed at health and safety professionals and
managers in universities and research organisations conducting
scientific and engineering research with transient workers and
students worldwide.
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