Citation

McGowan CR, Viens AM. J. Public Health (Oxford) 2010; 32(3): 427-430.

Affiliation

Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Catherine.McGowan@lshtm.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/pubmed/fdq015

PMID

20335184

Abstract

The Coroners and Justice Act (2009) represents the latest in a long series of legislative and policy measures aimed at reforming the coroner system. Unfortunately, the Act represents a continued failure to recognize that the legal orientation of the coroner system threatens its capability to contribute to adequate cause-specific disease surveillance and, in doing so, to fulfil its proper role in a public health system.

Language: en