Reform of the coroner system: a potential public health failure.
McGowan, CR;
Viens, AM;
(2010)
Reform of the coroner system: a potential public health failure.
Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 32 (3).
pp. 427-430.
ISSN 1741-3842
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq015
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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.