Public Health Law Research
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article reviews the field of public health law research and its progress in both methodological rigor and in identifying sources of data.
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Reducing Traumatic Brain Injuries in Youth Sports
May 16, 2013 | Journal Article
In an effort to reduce youth sports traumatic brain injuries (TBI), 44 states and Washington, D.C. have passed youth sports TBI legislation.
Graduated Driver Licensing Decal Law
October 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Teen drivers may not like it, but New Jersey's pioneering graduated driving license decal law is estimated to have prevented more than 1,600 crashes.
A Survey of Stakeholder Knowledge, Experience, and Opinions of Advance Directives for Mental Health in Virginia
January 13, 2012 | Journal Article
An innovative Virginia health care law enables competent adults with serious mental illness to plan for treatment during incapacitating crises using an integrated advance directive with no legal distinction between psychiatric or other causes of decisional incapacity.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws that Improve Health
May 24, 2012 | Program Result Report
Public Health Law Research promotes the effective use of law to improve public health. It does so through commissioning original research on the health impacts of laws and regulations and by promoting rigorous research methods.
Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?
April 1, 2011 | Book
The authors examine relationships between body mass index (BMI) and wages.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
National Program
Practical tools that policy-makers, public health practitioners, and leaders in other fields and venues can use to increase the support for and use of law to improve and protect health.
State Health Leadership Initiative
National Program
To accelerate the development of the leadership capacity of state and territorial health officers as policy-makers, administrators and advocates for the health of the public.
New Jersey's HIV Exposure Law and the HIV-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Sexual and Seropositive Status Disclosure Behaviors of Persons Living with HIV
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study of associations between HIV-positive people’s awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and their HIV-related attitudes, beliefs and seropositive disclosure behaviors found that awareness of the law had little effect on the disclosure behavior of HIV-positive individuals.
Legal Review Concerning the Use of Health Impact Assessments in Non-Health Sectors
January 1, 2012 | Report
Health impact assessments are increasingly common in the U.S., although rarely required and still underutilized to assess the health effects of decisions made in non-health sectors, even when an evaluation of the health impact is required.