A new book by President Obama’s former regulatory czar is critiqued by someone who experienced his interference first hand.
Public Health Practice
Public health. It’s about people and prevention. Public health week, still about people and prevention.
Hundreds of events are taking place across the U.S. this week to mark National Public Health week. Like everyday in public health, it’s about people and prevention.
Government
All-time high migrant death rate along US-Mexico border: prevention in immigration reform?
The death rate among individuals crossing illegally the U.S.-Mexico border reached an all-time high in 2012. Focusing on labor law enforcement, rather than border enforcement, could be a solution to the death toll.
Representatives of U.S. foundries met with White House officials behind closed doors to complain about a not-yet-proposed OSHA regulation. It was the group’s second such meeting. But they wouldn’t be necessary if the White House would simply allow OSHA’s public hearing process to take place.
Municipalities should see a red flag when one of its major construction contractors is found willfully and repeatedly violating worker safety standards.
Injury Control & Violence
Calling for a public health approach to control distracted driving from mobile devices
The co-editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy calls on the public health community to take on the social problem of distracted driving caused by mobile devices.
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is being remembered for his pronouncements about second-hand tobacco smoke and HIV. Lesser known is his advocacy for strong gun control laws.
A report about the H-2B guest worker program describes the mistreatment and abuse suffered by workers in the U.S. carnival and fair industry.
The headlines in Detroit are focused on the city’s financial woes, but the city’s future is at additional risk because of lead poisoned children in the city’s public schools.
Cancer
Obama Administration’s silence on silica is deafening, 2 years and counting for OSHA proposal
Imagine an organization that is given 90 days to complete a task, but after two years still hasn’t finished the job. When you ask them ‘when we’ll you be done?’ they respond with ‘no comment.’ That’s what’s happening with a Labor Dept rule to protect workers from respirable silica.