State Legislators' Work on Public Health-Related Issues

Predictors of Canadian legislators' support for public health policy interventions.

Making State Public Health Laws Work for SARS Outbreaks

Misrahi, et al. (1) describe the updated federal laws and response plans for handling SARS and related communi-cable diseases. Federal authority is important to control the interstate and international movement of persons who are potentially infectious, but most isolation and quarantine orders will be performed by state and local officials, using state and local law. We discuss how existing law...

Assessment of public health impact of work-related asthma

BACKGROUND Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society related to occupational or work-related asthma and to achieve comparable estimates for different populations. METHODS We addressed three centr...

Public Health Laboratory Work

This is practically a companion volume to Parkas and Kenwood's Hygiene and Public Health. The new edition lias been considerably altered and entirely revised. It is divided into seven parts, viz., the examination of water for public health purposes, the analysis of sewage, etc., soil examination, air analysis, food examination, the examination of disinfectants and Part VIT (written by Dr. Savag...

Public Health Laboratory Work