Law, Policy, and the Public Schools

Condom Access in South African Schools: Law, Policy, and Practice

In 2007, South Africa’s new Children’s Act came into effect [1,2], expanding the scope of several existing children’s rights and explicitly granting new ones. The Act gives to children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including access to contraceptives and to information on sexuality and reproduction, and the right of consent to HIV/AIDS testing and treatment...

Law, public policy and mental health in the workplace.

The first part of this article describes regulatory interventions, drawn from different Canadian jurisdictions, designed to reduce worker exposure to psychosocial hazards, including occupational violence, and to protect workers' mental health. It also addresses legislative provisions providing workers' compensation for mental health problems and regulatory provisions supporting the return to wo...

Sustainability and Free Education Policy: An Examination of Public Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria.

The study examined whether education should be free or not among the public secondary school teachers in Ogun State in Nigeria. The study examined the status of the secondary schools in terms of funding available to public secondary schools in Ogun State. The study applied Structural Functionalist theory and adopted qualitative method of data collection. Five (5) Key Informant Interviews (KII) ...

Community experiments in public health law and policy.

Elective ventilation for organ donation: law, policy and public ethics

This paper examines questions concerning elective ventilation, contextualised within English law and policy. It presents the general debate with reference both to the Exeter Protocol on elective ventilation, and the considerable developments in legal principle since the time that that protocol was declared to be unlawful. I distinguish different aspects of what might be labelled elective ventil...