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Revisiting The Regulation Debate: The Effect Of Food Marketing On Childhood Obesity, Nicole E. Hunter
Revisiting The Regulation Debate: The Effect Of Food Marketing On Childhood Obesity, Nicole E. Hunter
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “Despite the widespread concern regarding childhood obesity, there is broad divergence of opinion regarding responsibility for the crisis. Whether the government, food industry, or parents are accountable has become the focus of much debate. Public health groups have attempted various strategies to confront childhood obesity, such as litigation, legislation, and government regulation. While many researchers and advocates agree that government should play an affirmative role with respect to childhood obesity, they are very much divided over what that role should be. For example, although none of these acts has become law, eighty-six bills have been proposed regarding obesity since …
Looking Back At Fluoridation, Allan Mazur
Looking Back At Fluoridation, Allan Mazur
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author reviews the 50-year history of the debate over fluoridating drinking water as a public health measure.
Looking Back: Unneeded X-Rays, Allan Mazur
Looking Back: Unneeded X-Rays, Allan Mazur
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
From the discovery of x-rays in 1896 to the present, Dr. Mazur explores the history of risk management of radiation exposure from x-rays and nuclear fallout.
Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons?, Allan Mazur
Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons?, Allan Mazur
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Mazur relates how protests by the political left against nuclear tests and by the political right against fluoridation set the stage for Silent Spring to move the public toward being concerned about latent risks.
Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin
Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Nelkin finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.
Amalgam Fillings: Do Dental Patients Have A Right To Informed Consent, Michael A. Royal
Amalgam Fillings: Do Dental Patients Have A Right To Informed Consent, Michael A. Royal
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Recent animal studies have shown significant mercury absorption from dental fillings and resulted in unfavorable media attention. Yet, an FDA advisory committee has found no evidence of Risk to dental patients, and many dentists believe that patients are being unnecessarily alarmed. The paper reviews the history of amalgam fillings through the recent animal studies and concludes that the Risk, whatever it may prove to be, is sufficiently high to warrant permitting patients to choose between amalgam and alternative dental filling materials.
Mandatory Continuing Education: Does It Really Protect Society From Incompetent Health Professionals, Patricia A. Mcpartland
Mandatory Continuing Education: Does It Really Protect Society From Incompetent Health Professionals, Patricia A. Mcpartland
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Although the focus is narrow, this article argues that, in the face of short half-lives of current knowledge, continuing education requirements are needed and suggests possible improvements in the way that continuing education is implemented. While the issue is not explicitly addressed, readers might ponder whether such requirements might be profitably extended to other disciplines.