Developing public policy on assisted reproductive technologies: reflections on the work of the new york state task force on life and the law∗∗∗Copies of the Task Force’s report may be purchased from Health Education Services at 518-439-7286.

2000 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl H. Coleman ◽  
Barbara A. DeBuono
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New York ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New York State ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Education Services ◽  
York State ◽  
Health Education Services

Drug Education—Better Late Than Never

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Sinacore
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Health Education ◽  
New York State ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Education Department ◽  
York State ◽  
State Education ◽  
State Education Department

Recognizing that problems arising from human ecology do not represent medical failure so much as educational failure, and that prevention is cheaper in the long run than rehabilitation, the New York State Education Department is implementing a course of study in the Health Sciences incorporating knowledge from the disciplines of medical science and public health, aimed at prevention through education. Curriculum materials for 4th grade through high school, developed by the State Education Department, deal initially with the nature and proper use of drugs as a basis for understanding drug abuse. Drug education, to be effective as a drug abuse deterrent, should be taught by a well prepared health education teacher within the context of health education which touches on areas of mental health, physical health, consumer health, public health, safety and pharmacology. Intensive teacher training programs are underway in six institutions of higher education in New York State to prepare teachers licensed in other educational areas to fulfill state certification requirements in health education. Additional teachers are being trained to teach inservice courses in their own districts; their $600 salary per 30 hour course taught is paid by the State Education Department. The goal is to reach 7500 teachers during this school year. The program participants are brought into contact with consultants from many related fields. A learn-by-doing method is utilized involving group processes and activities designed to encourage individuals to become responsible for their own learning and the learning of others.

An Interview with Eddie Ellis

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Goodman ◽  
Maggie Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New York State ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
York State ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Community Justice ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
State Prisons

Edwin (Eddie) Ellis is President of the Community Justice Center, Inc., an anti-crime research, education, and advocacy organization located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. A target of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) for his Black Panther Party activities, Ellis served 25 years in various New York State prisons. While he was in prison, he earned a Masters degree from New York Theological Seminary, a Bachelor's from Marist College and a paralegal degree from Sullivan County Community College. Widely recognized as a writer, lecturer, and community activist, Ellis is credited with the successful public dissemination of the research findings of the Think Tank, a group of prisoners from Greenhaven Correction Facility which established that 75% of the prisoners in New York State come from seven neighborhoods in New York City. Eddie Ellis is a fellow of the Bunche Dubois Institute for Public Policy at Medgar Evers College/CUNY, serves on the Board of Directors of Center for Law and Justice in Albany, NY, is a member of the Drug Policy Task Force, The Vera Institute IRB, and the National Criminal Justice Commission. This interview took place in the offices of the Community Justice Center on August 6, 1997.

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 606
Author(s):  
George W. Brooks ◽  
Ronald Goldstock ◽  
Martin Marcus ◽  
Thomas D. Thacher ◽  
James B. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
York City ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New York State ◽  
Final Report ◽  
York State ◽  
City Construction

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Failure to Cover Does Not Violate ADA, Title VII, or PDA

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Gutmann
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Title I ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
New York State ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Title Vii ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Pregnancy Discrimination Act

In Saks v. Franklin Covey Co., the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), and New York state law do not proscribe an employer's self-insured employee health plan from excluding surgical impregnation procedures from its coverage. Although the court found that infertility qualifies as a disability under the ADA, it restricted required coverage of certain infedty treatments.Title I of the ADA prohibits an employer from discriminating on the basis of disability “in regard to … fringe benefits available by virtue of employment, whether or not administered by the covered entity.” The ADA defines “disability” as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” In Bragdon v. Abbott, the U.S. Supreme Court found that reproduction was a major life activity under the ADA.

scholarly journals Allocation of Ventilators in a Public Health Disaster

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tia Powell ◽  
Kelly C. Christ ◽  
Guthrie S. Birkhead
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Clinical Guidelines ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New York State ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
York State Department ◽  
York State

ABSTRACTBackground: In a public health emergency, many more patients could require mechanical ventilators than can be accommodated.Methods: To plan for such a crisis, the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law convened a workgroup to develop ethical and clinical guidelines for ventilator triage.Results: The workgroup crafted an ethical framework including the following components: duty to care, duty to steward resources, duty to plan, distributive justice, and transparency. Incorporating the ethical framework, the clinical guidelines propose both withholding and withdrawing ventilators from patients with the highest probability of mortality to benefit patients with the highest likelihood of survival. Triage scores derive from the sepsis-related organ failure assessment system, which assigns points based on function in 6 basic medical domains. Triage may not be implemented by a facility without clear permission from public health authorities.Conclusions: New York State released the draft guidelines for public comment, allowing for revision to reflect both community values and medical innovation. This ventilator triage system represents a radical shift from ordinary standards of care, and may serve as a model for allocating other scarce resources in disasters. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;2:20–26)

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