scholarly journals A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (S2) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Second Amendment

The call for a public health approach to gun violence has largely ignored what role the nascent Second Amendment jurisprudence will play in hindering change. Given the state interest for infringing on Second Amendment rights is nearly always public safety, public health law doctrine provides an apt framework for analysis.

scholarly journals Depression and Public Health Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Coggon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Question

This chapter examines arguments for framing and approaching depression as a public health question, paying attention to legal, regulatory, and practical issues. A public health approach focuses on effecting positive health changes through methods of socially coordinated, population-level intervention. Public health agendas aim to prevent or mitigate the incidence of ill health in the first place to promote broader concepts of well-being. This chapter explains a public mental health law approach to depression by addressing two sets of questions: why we would wish to take a public health approach and how we go about it. It presents and expands on a dominant understanding of public health before turning to a broad characterization of public health law, and considering some practicalities of taking a public health approach. It concludes with a discussion of why depression is apt to be framed and addressed as a matter for public health law.

Guidelines for Reviewing National Public Health Law

Medicne pravo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Andre den Exter ◽  
◽  
Alexey Goryainov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
National Public Health

Synergising International Public Health Law and International Disaster Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Pratik DIXIT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
International Public Health ◽  
Health Regulations

There is no time more opportune to review the workings of the International Health Regulations (IHR) than the present COVID-19 crisis. This article analyses the theoretical and practical aspects of international public health law (IPHL), particularly the IHR, to argue that it is woefully unprepared to protect human rights in times of a global public health crisis. To rectify this, the article argues that the IHR should design effective risk reduction and response strategies by incorporating concepts from international disaster law (IDL). Along similar lines, this article suggests that IDL also has a lot to learn from IPHL in terms of greater internationalisation and institutionalisation. Institutionalisation of IDL on par with IPHL will provide it with greater legitimacy, transparency and accountability. This article argues that greater cross-pollination of ideas between IDL and IPHL is necessary in order to make these disciplines more relevant for the future.

Public Health Law Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Ibrahim ◽  
Scott Burris ◽  
Scott Hays
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law

Educating the New Public Health Law Professional

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Davis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public

This article outlines the author's experience designing and implementing an asynchronous online course. Designed as a complement to public health law externships at any location, the course addresses professionalism and strategic lawyering. The article further describes the author's fellowship journey, which emboldened her view that faculty must attempt to live the expectations we have for our students, and also declare our professional values, especially when teaching about policymaking which is fraught with values conflicts. It concludes with a call for others to pilot innovative teaching approaches to address both the crisis in legal education and pressing societal issues, thereby contributing to the health of our legal community.

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