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Research findings showed that secondary school students in Hong Kong face many challenges. In particular, morbid emphasis on academic excellence has created much competition and stress in high school students. It was estimated that around one-fifth of secondary school students in Hong Kong had different forms of mental disorders. In a three-year longitudinal study, it was found that the prevalence rates of Internet addiction in Secondary 1, Secondary 2 and Secondary 3 students were 26.4%, 26.6% and 22.5%, respectively. In the same study, suicidal ideation in junior secondary school students was found in more than one-tenth of the students. At the same time, there were more than two-tenths of students showing signs of self-harm and suicidal behaviour in junior secondary years. The number of adolescents experiencing economic disadvantage has increased while family solidarity has dropped in recent years. In spite of these adolescent developmental issues, the lack of life education and life skills training in secondary school students has made the situation worse. Although moral and civic education is one of the pillars in the new 6-year secondary school curriculum, there are several problems involved. First, the coverage on social and emotional learning in the curriculum guide is very thin. Second, although there are curricula materials on life skills training in the field, validated curricula are almost non-existent. In fact, in a review of adolescent prevention and positive youth development programs in Asia, Shek and Yu pointed out that there were very few validated evidence-based programs in Hong Kong. Third, training in social-emotional learning and adolescent prevention programs is grossly inadequate in Hong Kong. Finally, while nobody would dispute the importance of life skills and psychosocial competence, such topics are seldom taught in depth in the school contexts.

This book provides an overview of the voluntary performance standard document for bomb suits for use by certified public safety bomb technicians while performing render safe procedures and disposal activities. It defines both performance requirements and the methods used to test performance. In order for a manufacturer, supplier, or other entity to claim that a particular bomb suit model satisfies this National Institute of Justice (NIJ) standard, the model must be in compliance with the requirements outlined in this standard.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism, medical migration (the physician "brain drain"), telemedicine, and pharmaceutical research and development, and integrates them in a philosophical discussion of issues of justice and equity relating to the globalization of health care.
The time for such an examination is right. Medical tourism and telemedicine are growing multi-billion-dollar industries affecting large numbers of patients. The U.S. heavily depends on foreign-trained doctors to staff its health care system, and nearly forty percent of clinical trials are now run in the developing world, with indications of as much of a 10-fold increase in the past 20 years. NGOs across the world are agitating for increased access to necessary pharmaceuticals in the developing world, claiming that better access to medicine would save millions from early death at a relatively low cost. Coming on the heels of the most expansive reform to U.S. health care in fifty years, this book plots the ways in which this globalization will develop as the reform is implemented.

Due to the digitization of medical records, more and more health data is readily available. This dynamic has created many opportunities to unlock this information and use it to improve medical practice, and through research and surveillance understand the effectiveness and side effects of drugs and medical devices to ultimately improve the public's health. This data can also be used for commercial purposes such as sales and marketing. However, this newfound utility raises some profound questions about how this data ought to be used and how it will impact personal privacy. Unless we are able to address these privacy issues in a convincing and defensible way, there will be increased breaches of personal privacy. This will provoke regulators to impose new rules limiting the use and disclosure of health data for secondary purposes, patients increasingly to adopt privacy protective behaviours because they no longer trust how their health information is being managed, or healthcare providers to be reluctant to share their patients' data. By adopting responsible data sharing practices, researchers, companies and the general public can gain the benefits and the promise of big data analytics without sacrificing personal privacy or infringing upon law or regulation. Risky Business - Sharing Health Data While Protecting Privacy illustrates how this goal can be achieved. Bringing articles from a diverse collection of health data experts to inform the reader on contemporary policy, legal and technical issues surrounding health information privacy and data sharing. It is a uniquely practical work to inform the reader on how best - and how not to - share health data in the US and Canada.

Mobile phone use in the United States has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, and Americans increasingly rely on mobile phones as their sole or primary means of telephone communication. The rapid adoption of mobile phones has occurred amidst controversy over whether the technology poses a risk to human health. Like other devices that transmit radio signals, mobile phones emit radio-frequency (RF) energy. At high power levels, RF energy can heat biological tissue and cause damage. Though mobile phones operate at power levels well below the level at which this thermal effect occurs, the question of whether long-term exposure to RF energy emitted from mobile phones can cause other types of adverse health effects, such as cancer, has been the subject of research and debate. This book examines what is known about the health effects of RF energy from mobile phones, with a focus on the FCC and FDA's regulatory responsibilities; and other scientific research.

One look at their huge blue diamond rings tells you everything you need to know about the Matriarchs. Their names aren't on the door at Fishbein, Schindler, Rose and Sampson, but they're members of the exclusive club running the firm. The Matriarchs are powerful and profitable, but many question whether they're behind the suspicious deaths of three founding partners. Into the Matriarchs' world steps Sam Mitcham, an ambitious young lawyer who wants to make his mark, and make some money. He comes from a family of powerful women, but does he have what it takes to survive the Matriarchs?

In attorney and medical advocate Gregory Piche's hard-hitting book SHAM PEER REVIEW: The Power of Immunity and The Abuse of Trust, the author highlights several cautionary legal cases stemming from the Peer Review process, more appropriately known amongst medical professionals as The Sham Peer Review. SHAM PEER REVIEW is an illuminating read highlighting professional medical careers held in the balance from unjust and unfair evaluations of personal performance. The book also delves into our judicial system's fragile unwillingness and maze of interpretations in confronting and challenging the hornet's nest created by Sham Peer Reviews. Every hospital as an institution has a power structure among its medical staff. Powerful members of a medical staff are never the subject of Sham Peer Review and rarely the subject of any kind of meaningful Peer Review. Armed with control over the Peer Review process, statutory immunity and other protections, medical staff leaders wield an immense amount of personal power over those on the medical staff that they view as threats, competitors, or of a lesser station.

The Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) authorises the President to issue major disaster or emergency declarations in response to catastrophes in the United States that overwhelm state and local governments. This book examines concerns expressed by policymakers and experts that current Stafford Act declarations are inadequate to respond to, and recover from, and presents the arguments for and against amending the act to add a catastrophic declaration amendment.

This book examines the impact of law on the American healthcare system. It covers: * Access to, and nondiscrimination in, the provision of healthcare * The regulation of healthcare insurance, financing, and quality * The business of healthcare under antitrust, tax, and fraud and abuse laws The book strives to link extensive legal discussion to the broader policy and social context that ultimately shapes healthcare in America. With discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act throughout, the book has been designed to serve both law schools and health and public policy programs.

The goal of every safety professional and safety programs is to proactively identify problems while complying within safety guidelines. This text clarifies basic questions for safety and loss prevention professionals about legal liability, how to minimize, prevent and identify legal risks. Appendices, case studies, and sample forms are also included to engage the reader in active learning.

Health Care Marketing: Tools and Techniques provides the reader with essential tips, strategies, tools and techniques for successful marketing in the health care industry. Complete with summary questions and learning objectives, this book is a must-have resource for anyone interested in health care marketing. Both students and professionals will find this text to be extremely useful in learning how to build effective marketing campaigns and strategies.

The second and thoroughly revised edition of the 1999 reference provides substantially expanded citations in vital areas such as institutional liability, genetics, managed care, integrated delivery systems, professional regulation, and antitrust law. This comprehensive reference work is unique in its scope, accuracy, timeliness, and viability. It is endorsed by the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Hospital Association.

This casebook teaches students to think like lawyers with many kinds of skill-building problems. It teaches them to think about the problems of regulating bioethical issues not just with cases, but with patients' accounts of their illnesses, doctors' reports of their encounters with patients, ethicists' reflections on our duties to ourselves and those around us, researchers' findings on how medical decisions are made, the results those decisions produce, and the impact of various forms of legal regulation. Finally, it teaches students to understand the law broadly with explorations of larger conceptual issues about law and American culture.

This is a selection of readings - book chapters, articles, case law, statutes and regulations, and public policy tools such as health budget proposals - to allow for deeper analysis of the topics covered in 'Essentials of Health Policy and Law'.

A unique offering in this field from a sterling author team, Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context presents the stories and context of landmark cases in the field. By conveying back story and creating context, this brief text hooks students' interest and deepens their understanding of the law and policy implications of each case.

"Analogy From The Author" "I was, a "normal average, separated single working mother" trying to raise my "children" in a less than perfect world. "I was, separated, and moving on with "my life" to build a future for "my children" after "I left, my husband for valid reasons of infidelity with a sixteen year old girl in our home, and his physical, and verbal abuse towards me, with his added alcoholism." "I worked, hard to support his career, and he became successful and forgot he had children. I worked various jobs around the schedules of my children whether it was a waitress, microfilm operator, driving cab, cleaning motel rooms, bartender, delivering balloons in costumes, whatever it took to make ends meet and give them some advantages, "I never had." "If not, I moved on to another job that would be. My children came first. "I was, not a perfect mother" and by no means they were "perfect children." There is no such manual for either one. We can never project how our "children" will turn out, all we can do is teach them right from wrong, and guide them in values. All "I ever wanted, was a better way of life for my children." "We were, a "normal family" with normal problems, and were very close until they got older and drifted apart as most often family's do. There was always the little squabbles such as. sisters fighting over the bathroom, the use of each other's clothes or. Mom, "I want to use the car. "I had, strict rules in my house, and "I never, had to use too much stern reprimand. "I would not, tolerate "drug use" or "school dropouts." They were brought up with "manners" and taught "respect" on all levels. As children they were. not lazy they worked odd jobs to get the extras; "Ifelt, they needed to earn." Whether it be babysitting, cutting grass, shoveling snow, delivering news, papers. "They were, kept off the streets and very active in sports. As a "single parent" it was, very hard to protect my "children" from the. outside world but; if a danger arose and if it could be prevented "I would, change it. As a parent you need to provide the basic things in life for your "children" and a "home" is one of those necessities. A home is an investment for the future. When "I purchased my home, "I never, dreamed "I had, a lake of raw sewage, and toxics behind it, nestled in the woods out of site; 82 feet deep and as big a "football field." "I also, never realized to correct this problem it would take thirteen years and go as high as the "President Of The United States." Never thinking the same contaminates were contaminating the soil and water recourses through out the states. When you read this book you will understand why I felt, as if my "children and I were part of a western movie that was filmed in the roaring twenties." "In my, obsession to get a deplorable situation cleaned up that we; as "Americans" are supposedly know to have a "high living standard" are in fact living in a "Third World County," and we, as "Americans" should never have to accept it In nineteen eighty one when I started to jot down notes, keep track of records and documents "I would, have never though "I had, enough information to base a book upon. My only intent was to improve a "living quality"; instead "I opened, up many cans of worms and "my eyes," as well to a "complete environmental disaster"; and when "I realized, it was Statewide, it gained my attention. All because of this "littletown" less then one square mile, and a population of 722 were completely ignored of the existence of "environmental laws" that were clearly broken The contents of this book from the beginning for me expanded over thirty two years.

The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public's health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, journals on addictive behaviors, law reviews, and books. This is the only study to date that has assembled the empirical evidence from many areas ranging from motor vehicle liability and dram shop liability to medical malpractice, products liability as it applies to pharmaceutical products, and medical devices. The Law and Economics of Public Health addresses the fundamental question as to whether or not and the extent to which imposing tort liability on potential injurers improves the public's health. Does the threat of litigation on potential injurers make them exercise more caution? Does insurance coverage counter incentives to be careful? Does the tort system operate as perfectly as the theory would have it? This monograph answers these questions on the basis of empirical evidence. The Law and Economics of Public Health discusses both theory and empirical evidence in several areas of personal injury to which tort liability has been applied. The monograph starts by describing the general law and economics framework used to assess both positive and normative issues relating to tort liability. It then presents the rationale for and empirical evidence on particular applications of tort liability as it applies to personal injury.

Ethics in Clinical Practice, Second Edition continues to focus on multidisciplinary medicine and how ethical dilemmas affect not only doctors and patients, but also nurses, social workers, members of ethics committees, hospital attorneys, administrators, and others. Greater attention is given to care in a variety of settings and across settings. Cases reflect the managed care phenomenon and cost containment, demographic changes, the electronic revolution, and the ethical dilemmas resulting from this new climate. The revised edition discusses advances in palliative medicine and its availability, and includes new data regarding attitudes and prevalence of physician-assisted suicide. Attention is given to how issues of cost containment might directly or indirectly influence patients' end-of-life treatment options. Cases are updated to include pertinent information about medical advances and legal developments, and how ethical analysis reflects these new developments.

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating." (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)"One wishes that, six months ago, every member of Congress and the Trump administration had been forced to read and reckon with the history Witt neatly summarizes. But now in the aftermath of a close, bitterly fought election, let's hope that this book will help America chart its way forward."-Jill Filipovic, Washington Post From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others, Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the inequities of our mixed tradition continue?

In the field of mental health law, we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law, this book, through its narrative format, provides a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.

Sweeping changes are being proposed as Canadians examine our health care system. But what are the legal implications of health care reform? In this timely collection, lawyers and legal scholars discuss a variety of topics in health care reform, including regulation of private care, interpretation of the Canada Health Act, and the constitutional implications of proposed reforms. Barbara von Tigerstrom is currently studying at the University of Cambridge in England. Timothy Caulfield lives in Edmonton, where he teaches at the University of Alberta.

Various types of traditional medicine and other medical practices referred to as complementary or alternative medicine are increasingly used in both developing and developed countries. In order to promote safe and appropriate use of these medicines and practices, as well as to ensure the quality of service and practitioners, national regulations are vital. Establishing national policies on traditional medicine, and/or complementary/alternative medicine and their medical practices, should therefore include creation of legal frameworks. This review summarizes the legal status of several major practices in traditional medicine and complementary/alternative medicine in 123 countries. It includes data on: the use of traditional and complementary/alternative medicine; the regulatory situation of traditional and complementary/alternative remedies and practitioners; health insurance coverage of traditional and complementary/alternative medicine; education and training of practitioners of traditional and complementary/alternative medicine. Information provided in this review will be useful not only to policy makers, but also to researchers, universities, the public, insurance companies and pharmaceutical industries.

Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes is designed to be use d by your staff immediately upon purchase. All MDS QIs are covered in the 11 Monitoring plans, with corresponding Data Retrieval Worksheets. The worksheets get your staff immediately collecting data on the area s that the MDS QIs indicate need for improvement. Monitoring plans exa mine care delivery in areas such as nutrition, skin care, and medicati on use. Plus you'll get expert guidance on developing an ongoing quali ty improvement process. This book supports a team process to successfu lly improve care delivery systems.