Not exact matches
The Pennsylvania
Departments of
Public Health and Education must develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students, parents, and coaches about concussions, the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), including the risks of continuing to
play or practice after a concussion or TBI.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each
public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the
department of
health and communicated through the
department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the
department of
health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to
play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the
department.
The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have
played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago
Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and
Departments (
Department of
Public Health,
Department of Family and Support Services,
Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).
Department of
Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said the senators who released the report are «playing politics with public health.&
Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said the senators who released the report are «
playing politics with
public health.&
health.»
«We continue to feel we're
playing a progressive lead role in establishing [limits] for PFOA, PFOS and 1,4 - dioxane,» said
Department of
Health's Brad Hutton, the deputy commissioner for the Office of
Public Health.