Public Health Law and the Built Environment in American Public Schools : Detailed History with Policy Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783639116403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Brent Ibata

Opis

Education, in the United States, is accomplishedthrough a highly fragmented system of schooldistricts nested within sovereign states governed bylocally elected school boards. The laws governingthe built environment in American public schools arefragmented horizontally (between states) andvertically (federal, state, county, local). Thisfragmentation has resulted in a national system ofpublic schools with a loosely regulated environmentthat compels exposure of over 50 million studentseach day to known health hazards with the resultantmarginal health costs absorbed by society. This bookexplores the history of the built environment inAmerican public schools and how the commonschoolhouse devolved into national system of locallycontrolled public school buildings that compel itsoccupants to exposures in environments worse thanthose acceptable in private workplaces. Policiesrelated to domains in the built environment areanalyzed and alternative policies are recommended. This book would be a valuable resource for anyone atthe local, state or federal level interested incost-effective policies related to the builtenvironment in American public schools.

O autorze

Brent Ibata, PhD, JD, MPH: Mensan and graduate of The Second City
Training Center. Studied Public Health and Health Law at Saint
Louis University s School of Public Health and School of Law.
Dr. Ibata earned his B.S. with honors from Southern Illinois
University in Carbondale and worked at New Trier High School from
1996-1998.