Public health and safety law

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety.

Written in a clear and concise style by an experienced author, this attractively-priced book covers regulatory affairs in all major global markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, making it the most comprehensive in its field.

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

The battle is an old one: man versus nature.

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.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms.

This book is an essential guide and support to understanding of the science and policy, procedure and practice that underpins the REACH risk assessments required for the use and placing on the market of chemicals in the European Union.

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Genetically Modified Organisms in Food focuses on scientific evaluation of published research relating to GMO food products to assert their safety as well as potential health risks.

Consultant and long-time Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food labeling expert James Summers answers the many questions surrounding FDA food labeling regulations and compliance in Food Labeling Compliance Review.

A comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the regulation and practice of advance directives in sixteen jurisdictions in Asia.

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial.

Two leading physicians'' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society.

Whether, and in what circumstances, public authorities should be held liable for negligence in the performance of their public functions is a highly complex area of the law.

Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms.

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link?

This internationally authored textbook demystifies the complexities that health systems pose in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Injuries involving the spine are the most common compensation claims in the United States.

In the mid 1980s, there was a crisis in the availability, affordability, and adequacy of liability insurance in the United States and Canada.

"e;With misinformation and disinformation everywhere, a book that provides facts without an agenda is a welcome resource for public, academic, and consumer health collections.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political.

A growing body of EU law and regulation is preoccupied with the protection of EU citizens from health and environmental risks.

This book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regions in Asia.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

This book presents the health reform experiences over the past three decades of twelve small and medium-sized nations that are not often included in international comparative studies in this field.

The provision of an adequate means of escape from fire is fundamental to the design of new buildings and to the alteration, change of use or extension of existing buildings.

The United States uses 42 billion gallons of water a day-treated to meet Federal drinking water standards-to support a variety of needs.

Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Editionprobes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports.

Statutory Nuisance: Law and Practice offers a comprehensive resource for practitioners in the legal and environmental health professions, guiding the reader through the complex practical and legal issues associated with statutory nuisance.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

This book presents a range of insights on the relationship between food and law.

The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world.

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

Examines social and political issues that have become resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective.

Strategies in Workers' Compensation, written with the healthcare medical professional in mind, describes the nuts and bolts of workers compensation.