Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2012 Dec;102(12):2214-20. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300721. Epub 2012 Oct 18.
Ice hockey and motorcycle riding are increasingly popular activities in the United States that are associated with high risks of head and facial injuries. In both, effective head and facial protective equipment are available. Yet the debates about safety policies regarding the use of head protection in these activities have taken different forms, in terms of the influence of epidemiological data as well as of the ethical concerns raised. I examine these debates over injury prevention in the context of leisure activities, in which the public health duty to prevent avoidable harm must be balanced with the freedom to assume voluntary risks.
冰球和骑摩托车在美国越来越受欢迎,但这两项运动都存在头部和面部受伤的高风险。这两种运动都有有效的头部和面部防护装备。然而,关于在这些活动中使用头部保护的安全政策的争论形式不同,涉及到流行病学数据的影响以及提出的伦理问题。我在休闲活动的背景下研究这些预防伤害的争论,在这种情况下,必须在预防可避免伤害的公共卫生责任与自愿承担风险的自由之间取得平衡。