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March 14, 2013 | Program Result
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
March 21, 2013 | New Public Health Post
State legislatures recently got underway across the country and many will be considering some critical public health law measures, according to a recent blog post from the Network for Public Health Law. Critical issues include a smoking ban in Ky.
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A new theoretical framework provides the impetus for research into the intersection of PHLR, PHSSR, and public health law. This article from the Milbank Quarterly includes a causal diagram of key legal mechanisms acting on the public health system.
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Pandemics challenge the law and often highlight its strengths or expose its limits.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: By bringing together state and local officials, their federal counterparts and diverse stakeholders of the food safety system, this project developed an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the food safety system.
October 1, 2010 | Report
The Attorneys General of the 50 states have considerable legal authority to protect the public's health, yet their role in the development of health policy is often under-appreciated or misunderstood. This paper analyzes their current powers and provides a logic model that illustrates how the use of these powers can lead to the protection and promotion of the public's health.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem. Experts recommend that prevention and control strategies include population-based policies.
March 22, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new post on the blog of the Network for Public Health Law by Network staff attorney Jennifer Bernstein underscores the critical need for updated housing laws that provide safer rental housing stock for tenants. Under the Uniform Residential Landlo ...
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of the current state of laws limiting drivers' use of mobile communication devices (MCDs) found that no state prohibits all types of MCD use by all types of drivers, and that laws restricting MCD use are not based on evidence about actual hazards.