Teaching Population Health Outcomes Research, Advocacy, and the Population Health Perspective in Public Health Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Robert Gatter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Outcomes Research ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Outcomes Research ◽  
Legal Advocacy

The goal of this project was to expand an existing public health law curriculum to incorporate lessons on population health outcomes research, extra-legal advocacy, and the population health perspective. The project also created opportunities for students not only to read about and discuss concepts, but also to employ the lessons more practically through exercises and by writing white papers on public health law reform topics relevant to population health in Missouri. To do this, the project expanded an existing didactic course and created a new credit-bearing, experiential “Lab.”

Teaching Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Population Health through Law and Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Tobin Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Course

This interdisciplinary course, which included students from medicine, public health, law, and public policy, explored the concept of “prevention” and the role of law and public policy preventing disease and injury and improving population health. In addition to interdisciplinary course content, students worked in interdisciplinary teams on public health law and policy projects at community organizations and agencies.

scholarly journals Constitutional Cohesion and the Right to Public Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
James Hodge ◽  
Daniel Aaron ◽  
Haley Augur ◽  
Ashley Cheff ◽  
Joseph Daval ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
General Obligation ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

Despite years of significant legal improvements stemming from a renaissance in public health law, Americans still face major challenges and barriers in assuring their communal health. Reversals of legal reforms coupled with maligned policies and chronic underfunding contribute to diminished public health outcomes. Underlying preventable morbidity and mortality nationally are realities of our existing constitutional infrastructure. In essence, there is no general obligation of government to protect or promote the public’s health. Under principles of “constitutional cohesion,” structural facets and rights-based principles interwoven within the Constitution protect individuals and groups from governmental vices (i.e., oppression, overreaching, tyranny, and malfeasance). Structural impediments and rights infringements provide viable options to challenge governmental efforts inapposite to protecting the public’s health. Through corollary applications framed as auxiliary, creative, and ghost righting, courts are also empowered to recognize core duties or rights that the Constitution may not explicitly denote but assuredly contains, to remedy identifiable vices. Notably, ghost righting charts a course for recognizing a constitutional right to public health that Americans are owed, and government must respect, to assure basic public health needs.

scholarly journals Building the Legal Capacity of the Public Health Workforce: Introducing the Public Health Law Academy

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (S2) ◽  
pp. 80-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montrece McNeill Ransom ◽  
Rebecca Johnson ◽  
Marice Ashe ◽  
Matthew Penn ◽  
F. Abigail Ferrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
The Public

Knowledge of the law and its impact on health outcomes is increasingly important in public health practice. The CDC's Public Health Law Academy helps satisfy this need by providing online trainings, facilitator toolkits, and legal epidemiology tools to aid practitioners in learning about the law's role in promoting public health.

Mapping the Scope and Opportunities for Public Health Law in Liberal Democracies

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger S. Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Improve Health

The two questions, “What is public health law?” and “How can law improve the public’s health?”, are perennial ones for public health law scholars. They are ideological questions because perceptions about the proper boundaries of law’s role will shape perceptions of what law can do, in an operational sense, to improve health outcomes. They are also theoretical questions, in the sense that, without closing down debate about the limits of public health law, these questions can be addressed by mapping the range of perspectives on how law might “go to work” for the public’s health. Finally, these are immensely practical questions. On our ability to understand the roles that law can play in public health improvement rests our capacity, as a society, to use law strategically as a policy tool.

Major Trends in Public Health Law and Practice: A Network National Report

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Hodge ◽  
Leila Barraza ◽  
Jennifer Bernstein ◽  
Courtney Chu ◽  
Veda Collmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Practice Skills ◽  
Improve Health

Public health law research reveals significant complexities underlying the use of law as an effective tool to improve health outcomes across populations. The challenges of applying public health law in practice are no easier. Attorneys, public health officials, and diverse partners in the public and private sectors collaborate on the front lines to forge pathways to advance population health through law. Meeting this objective amidst competing interests requires strong practice skills to shift through sensitive and sometimes urgent calls for action to address known threats to the health of individuals and the community. It also necessitates objective, timely information and national and regional legal support.

The Natural Environment as an Object of Public Health Law: Addressing Health Outcomes of Climate Change through Intersections with Environmental and Agricultural Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-680
Author(s):  
Jill Krueger ◽  
Betsy Lawton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.

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