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September 22, 2010 | Journal Article
State attorneys generals have increasingly supported health and health care through litigation, investigative activities and policy reform work. Looking forward they will play an important role as reform moves out of the legislative arena.
September 14, 2010 | Commentary
From smoke-free regulations in restaurants and bars, food safety and menu labeling to air bag requirements for cars, laws can increasingly help create healthier, safer communities. As a result, those vested in public health—from local, state, federa ...
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The potential for population health reform could be enhanced by assessing whether we have made the cost of policies and resources already available.
May 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
This month is Mental Health Month, a good time to note that while the mental health landscape has shifted over the last half a century -- legal reforms and new treatments have led to improvements in mental health care in the U.S. -- we still have a ...
May 16, 2011 | New Public Health Post
In a recent blog post for the Public Health Law Network, Kathleen Dachille, director of the Network’s Eastern Region, writes that on the television show Battlestar Galactica, “frak” is a dirty word. Nowadays, for some in the U.S., “fracking”, a natu ...
May 3, 2011 | New Public Health Post
May is Mental Health Month. While that observance is more than sixty years old, mental health has only recently started to take its place as a critical public health action item. Why the gap between observance and action? In a recent report in Menta ...
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article is a practical how-to guide in applying the scientific method to measure the law for quantitative research.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article explores public health law research, defined as the scientific study of the relation of law and legal practices to population health.
February 23, 2011
Public Health Law Network regional directors talk about focus areas.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article the authors explore the relationship of law and science in the broader context of EPH, beginning with an overview of potential goals and challenges.