The Model Aquatic Health Code

Kunz, Jasen

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Video

Date

2013-10-17

Author

Kunz, Jasen

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Center for Public Health Law Research (Temple University Beasley School of Law)

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7447

Abstract

People in the United States make more than 300 million trips to pools each year, but there is no federal regulatory authority governing the health and safety of swimmers, and the current patchwork of state and local laws are often not science-based. Jasen Kunz, JD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggests in his Critical Opportunities presentation that the Model Aquatic Health Code provides sample evidence-based guidelines that can be adopted to help reduce rates of pool-related injuries and illness.

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The Critical Opportunities initiative of the Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation presents evidence and ideas for proposed legal and policy changes that can positively impact public health challenges. This video presents these ideas and evidence, and includes the practical and political feasibility of implementing the proposed changes to laws and policies. All Critical Opportunities videos can be viewed at http://youtube.com/CriticalOpps4PHL

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CritcalOpps4PHL, The Model Aquatic Health Code, YouTube (Oct. 17, 2013), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZ6teCrRwI.

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Critical Opportunities

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