Protecting against harm: safeguarding adults in general medicine

Protecting Adolescents From Harm

Context.\p=m-\Themain threats to adolescents' health are the risk behaviors they choose. How their social context shapes their behaviors is poorly understood. Objective.\p=m-\Toidentify risk and protective factors at the family, school, and individual levels as they relate to 4 domains of adolescent health and morbidity: emotional health, violence, substance use, and sexuality. Design.\p=m-\Cro...

Safeguarding against heat hazards.

Heat stress occurs when the body cannot release heat and cool itself. When the air temperature is as warm as or warmer than a person's skin, blood brought to the skin's surface cannot efficiently release heat. Working hard in high heat impedes the body's ability to cool itself because the muscles need extra blood, thus decreasing the amount of blood available to circulate to the skin and intern...

Protecting Future Children from In‐Utero Harm

The actions of pregnant women can cause harm to their future children. However, even if the possible harm is serious and likely to occur, the law will generally not intervene. A pregnant woman is an autonomous person who is entitled to make her own decisions. A fetus in-utero has no legal right to protection. In striking contrast, the child, if born alive, may sue for injury in-utero; and the c...

Protecting the public from risk of harm.

Safeguarding patients against stem cell tourism.