California is the only U.S. state that does not regulate athletic trainers, professionals commonly employed by public high schools in other states to help prevent young athletes from getting injured.
Fareed Dibazar, MPH candidate. Photo courtesy Fareed Dibazar.
Fareed Dibazar, a second-year student in USC’s Master of Public Health program, delves into this issue and the ensuing conflict over school health care mandates in the School Health Policy Series on The Medical Care Blog, the official blog of the peer-reviewed journal Medical Care, sponsored by the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.