...Benjamin Mason Meier; James G. Hodge, Jr.; Kristine M. Gebbie The Turning Point Model State Public Health Act (Turning Point Act), published in September 2003, provides a comprehensive template for states seeking public health law modernization. This case study examines the political and policy...

....” In short, the discussions surrounding vaccine hesitancy that dominate public discourse detract from serious debate as to whether amendments to vaccine-related laws can address the limitations of the existing framework governing immunizations. This commentary examines these issues through a public health...

... Laws in the United States: A Survey and Recommendations. Draft unpublished report. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control. Centers for Disease Control (Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). 1992i . Tuberculosis Program Management Report...

...Wendy K. Mariner Lawrence O. Gostin. Public Health Law: Power, Duty,Restraint. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 491 pp.$65.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books...

...Robyn Martin; Alexandra Conseil This article provides a critical portrait of the current state of public health policies and laws governing pandemic influenza prevention and control in Europe. It examines the role of and relationship between national public health policy and national communicable...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Jeffrey Wasserman; Anda Botoseneanu; Amy Silverstein; Helen W. Wu We report the results of a study designed to assess and evaluate how the law shapes the public health system's preparedness activities. Based on 144 qualitative interviews conducted in nine states, we used a model...

...Scott L. Greer de Ruijter , Anniek . EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 215 pp. $75.00 cloth. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 In any circumstances this book would...

...Sherri A. Brown Obijiofor Aginam. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 240 pp. $60.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books Obijiofor Aginam...

... . Wild Joff . 2009 . “Thomson Reuters 2009 Patent Focus Report.” http://science.thomsonreuters.com/news/2009-02/8502356/ . Public Health Law Research How Do Public Health Safeguards in Indian Patent Law Affect Pharmaceutical...

... of the central problems. Immigrant Workers: Health, Law, and Public Policy Sally Guttmucher, Rutgers University Abstract. Immigrant workers are a large segment of the lower echelon of the U. S . labor force, and as many as 3.6 to 6 million of these workers and their families are living...

... . Buss , Fran Leeper . 1980 . La Partera: Story of a Midwife. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Butter , Irene , and Bonnie J. Kay. 1988 . State Laws and the Practice of Lay Midwifery. American Journal of Public Health 78 ( 9 ): 1161 -9. Cassidy-Brinn , Ginny , Francie...

...Lindsay F. Wiley Abstract Prevention has become a central focus for health care payers, providers, policy makers, and the general public. Given the centrality of prevention to public health science, practice, and law, it would seem that conditions are ripe for the public health law renaissance...

... health care is now delivered. This would result in a more appropriate allocation of liability to the institutional level. The second judicial trend will be the convergence of health law and public health law concepts. Because the ACA arguably stimulates closer engagement between health systems and public...

... health to enter the field and challenging more traditional actors to galvanize themselves and compete for this newly attractive policy terrain. We use the occasion of the passage of a public health law in 2004, labeled by its proponents as the “first” public health law in one hundred years, to show how...

...James G. Hodge, Jr. Abstract Though public health policy surveillance is an integral tool in correlating the law to scientifically based public health law studies, drawing accurate legal conclusions from collected data can be challenging. Data may be of poor quality, inaccessible to law and policy...

...Wendy E. Parmet The policy debate over AIDS has focused on how to balance the rights of individuals who have the disease against the rights of the public. This paper examines the nature of both sets of rights by analyzing the development of public health law and its dominant visions today...

... of usable data. This article makes the case for the practice of policy surveillance to help end the anomalous treatment of law in public health research and practice. Policy surveillance is the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance. It meets several important...

...Robert Gatter Abstract This essay explores the viability of using the population health legal norm developed by Professor Wendy Parmet in her book Populations, Public Health, and the Law as a basis for theorizing health law. Based on the application of five criteria, the essay concludes...

...George J. Annas; Wendy K. Mariner Abstract Public health's reliance on law to define and carry out public activities makes it impossible to define a set of ethical principles unique to public health. Public health ethics must be encompassed within—and consistent with—a broader set of principles...

... social values (including those of judges) and a society’s collective approach to function- ing in the world (Friedman 2002). Where public health policy is concerned, nowhere has this tension sur- rounding the meaning of law in a power-­sharing context been more evi- dent than in the case...