TY - JOUR
T1 - A Transdisciplinary Approach to Public Health Law
T2 - The Emerging Practice of Legal Epidemiology
AU - Burris, Scott
AU - Ashe, Marice
AU - Levin, Donna
AU - Penn, Matthew
AU - Larkin, Michelle
N1 - Funding Information:
Work on this article was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under CDC Collaborating Agreement Number CDC-RFAOT13-1302.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/3/18
Y1 - 2016/3/18
N2 - Public health law has roots in both law and science. For more than a century, lawyers have helped develop and implement health laws; over the past 50 years, scientific evaluation of the health effects of laws and legal practices has achieved high levels of rigor and influence. We describe an emerging model of public health law that unites these two traditions. This transdisciplinary model adds scientific practices to the lawyerly functions of normative and doctrinal research, counseling, and representation. These practices include policy surveillance and empirical public health law research on the efficacy of legal interventions and the impact of laws and legal practices on health and health system operation. A transdisciplinary model of public health law, melding its legal and scientific facets, can help break down enduring cultural, disciplinary, and resource barriers that have prevented the full recognition and optimal role of law in public health.
AB - Public health law has roots in both law and science. For more than a century, lawyers have helped develop and implement health laws; over the past 50 years, scientific evaluation of the health effects of laws and legal practices has achieved high levels of rigor and influence. We describe an emerging model of public health law that unites these two traditions. This transdisciplinary model adds scientific practices to the lawyerly functions of normative and doctrinal research, counseling, and representation. These practices include policy surveillance and empirical public health law research on the efficacy of legal interventions and the impact of laws and legal practices on health and health system operation. A transdisciplinary model of public health law, melding its legal and scientific facets, can help break down enduring cultural, disciplinary, and resource barriers that have prevented the full recognition and optimal role of law in public health.
KW - Legal epidemiology
KW - Policy surveillance
KW - Public health law
KW - Public health law research
KW - Public health practice
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021841
DO - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021841
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26667606
AN - SCOPUS:84982835341
SN - 0163-7525
VL - 37
SP - 135
EP - 148
JO - Annual review of public health
JF - Annual review of public health
ER -