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Trade and public health : the WTO, tobacco, alcohol, and diet
\"Non-communicable diseases, associated with risk factors such as tobacco consumption, poor diet, and alcohol use, represent a growing health burden around the world. The seriousness of non-communicable diseases is reflected in the adoption of international instruments such as the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health; and the WHO Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol. In line with these instruments, states are beginning to use measures such as taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation, and labeling measures for public health purposes. This book examines the extent to which the law of the World Trade Organization restricts domestic implementation of these types of measures. The relationship between international health instruments and the WTO Agreement is examined, as are the WTO covered agreements themselves\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law
This essay reflects upon the last thirty-five years of public health law. Part One begins by discussing the growth and maturation of the field of public health law since the 1980s. Part Two examines current challenges facing public health law, focusing on those posed by the conservative legal movement and a judiciary that is increasingly skeptical of efforts to use law to improve health and mitigate health inequities. Part Three discusses potential responses to the increasingly perilous judicial climate, including thoughts that emerged from a convening held on the subject by the Act for Public Health Partnership in May 2024.
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American Contagions
A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been
shaped by-the experience of contagion
\"Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt's
legal survey a fascinating resource\"- Kirkus , starred
review
\"Professor Witt's book is an original and thoughtful contribution
to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law.
Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience of
epidemics from yellow fever to COVID-19, he is especially timely in
his exploration of the legal background to the current disaster of
the American response to the coronavirus. A thought-provoking,
readable, and important work.\"-Frank Snowden, author of
Epidemics and Society From yellow fever to smallpox to
polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to
make choices and answer questions about their basic values and
their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt
traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious
disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that
throughout American history legal approaches to public health have
been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others,
Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought
up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the
relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What
is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the
states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give
way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the
inequities of our mixed tradition continue?
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Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals
\"A provocative cultural history of pesticides and their controversial use and depiction in the United States. Mart contends that--despite the sharp concerns raised by environmentalists and others since the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--Americans have not only never resolved the inherent tension between costs and benefits presented by these chemicals, but have actually grown ever more attached to them with the passage of time\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Medical-Legal Partnership
A medical-legal partnership (MLP) is a collaboration between a health care organization and a public interest law firm organization to address health-harming social needs that have civil law remedies. MLPs can improve patient health outcomes, improive patient well-being, improve patient adherence to recommend medical treatment, remove barriers to health care for low-income families by addressing cost and insurance concerns, and increase access for individuals and families to stable housing and other social supports. We contend that MLPs can operate at both the individual and population levels. We begin by providing a brief overview of of MLPs and then turn to a discussion of MLPs as a public health law intervention.
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Populations, Public Health, and the Law
aw plays a crucial role in protecting the health of populations. Whether the public health threat is bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, obesity, or lung cancer, law is an essential tool for addressing the problem. Yet for many decades, courts and lawyers have frequently overlooked law's critical importance to public health.Populations, Public Health, and the Lawseeks to remedy that omission. The book demonstrates why public health protection is a vital objective for the law and presents a new population-based approach to legal analysis that can help law achieve its public health mission while remaining true to its own core values. By looking at a diverse range of topics, including food safety, death and dying, and pandemic preparedness, Wendy E. Parmet shows how a population-based legal analysis that recalls the importance of populations and uses the tools of public health can enhance legal decision making while protecting both public health and the rights and liberties of individuals and their communities.
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Better Health Faster
It is easy to identify health laws that have helped Americans live longer, healthier lives. Indeed, most of the greatest public health accomplishments of the last century depended on legal action. The coordination of research, policy development, public education, and advocacy in the tobacco control movement shows that success is attainable even in the face of powerful industry opposition. The development of automobile safety laws during the past 30 years shows how well-conducted, properly diffused research can instigate policy cascades and guide policy refinement over time. These examples of \"interventional health law\"--using law as a tool of intervention--also illustrate that developing, enacting, evaluating, and spreading health laws is not just the work of lawyers. In these and many examples like them, health advocates, researchers, public health practitioners, and lawyers work in strategic partnership to improve population health through law and policy. Here, Burris et al describe the essential public health law services that define the observable, improvable services required for health agencies and systems to develop and enforce laws to improve public health.
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