Public Health Law ppt

[...]... characteristics of public health law Public health law: A definition and core values The public health system The mission of public health The core functions of public health Ten great public health achievements Law as a tool for the public s health: Seven models of legal intervention A guide to thinking about the determinants of population health Public health regulation: A stepwise evaluation Public health risk... subject of law and health is widely taught (in schools of law, medicine, public health, and health administration), practiced (by health lawyers”), and analyzed (by scholars in the related fields of health law, bioethics, and health policy).1 The fields that characterize these branches of study are called health law, health care law, law and medicine, forensic medicine, and public health law Do these... presented in this book Lawrence O Gostin Associate Dean Linda and Timothy O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C March 2008 part one Conceptual Foundations of Public Health Law Photo 1 The varied tasks of the Public Health Service in 1941 This drawing of a public health tree depicting... depicting the varied tasks of the Public Health Service appeared in Fortune magazine in 1941 A 1798 law for the care of sick and disabled seamen created the Marine Hospital Service, the forerunner of the Public Health Service, and provided the federal government with a major role in the public s health chapter 1 A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law [Public health law] should not be confused with... book is organized into four major parts: • Conceptual Foundations of Public Health Law • Law and the Public s Health • Public Health and Civil Liberties in Conflict • The Future of the Public s Health This expanded second edition contains a great deal of new material, including chapters on administrative law and regulation, global health law, and obesity The second edition also contains new boxed text,... of public health law, an exploration of its doctrinal boundaries, and an assessment of its analytical methodology.2 Public health law shares conceptual terrain with the field of law and medicine, or health care law, but remains a distinct discipline My claim is not that public health law is contained within a tidy doctrinal package; its boundaries are blurred and overlap other paths of study within law. .. that public health xix xx Foreword regulations could not prevent a willful Atlanta lawyer with tuberculosis from risking the health of people on several airplanes and two continents During the past seven years, moreover, the field of public health law has expanded in size and scope For the first time in over a century, public health law is increasingly recognized as one of the professions of public health, ... institutions, Georgetown University Law Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Center for Law and the Public s Health, have been intellectual homes for this project, and many other related projects, on public health law My valued colleagues within the Center have been close collaborators with me in exploring the field of public health law and ethics for many years, including... public health law is a coherent field, distinct from other intellectual activities at the intersection of law and health In particular, I offer five characteristics that distinguish public health law from the vast literature on law and medicine (see figure 1): • Government’s responsibility to advance the public s health • Coercion and limits on state power • Government’s partners in the public health. .. of public health agencies Economic liberties protected under the U.S Constitution 187 192 200 206 236 241 248 250 272 328 346 348 350 413 464 474 Tables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Current and future public health challenges Public health regulation: Trade-offs between public benefit and private interests and rights Federal constitutional powers to protect the public s health Public health . Foundations of Public Health Law 1. A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law 3 Public Health Law: A Definition and Core Values 4 Public Health Statutes:. characteristics of public health law xxiii 2. Public health law: A definition and core values 5 3. The public health system 14 4. The mission of public health 26 5.