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Conceptualizing Public Health Law to Meet Future Challenges
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Lance Gable, JD, MPH
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Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
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Deparment of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Heather A. McCabe, JD, MSW
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Indiana University School of Social Work, Indianapolis, IN
Kerri McGowan Lowrey, JD, MPH
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Network for Public Health Law--Eastern Region, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
This presentation explores the scope and content of three interconnected areas of the contemporary field of public health law: public health law jurisprudence, research, and practice. While there are normative outer limits on the research and practice of public health, there is interrelation across these three areas. Public health law jurisprudence describes those areas of inquiry that seek to outline the normative justification and limits of state action that frame public health. Public health law practice is law applied, focusing on the activities of lawyers working in public health or impacting upon the public’s health. Complementing these traditional components, public health law research seeks to understand how the law impacts public health, viewing law as a determinant of health and instrumental to realizing health goals. Through this conceptual review and contemporary recategorization, a new model of public health law is developed, articulating the interactions between jurisprudence, practice, and research and the influence of this interaction on the discipline.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the current state of public health law
Keyword(s): Law, Health Law
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am an expert in the field. I am an active member of the APHA Law Section serving as the Chair-Elect. My research interests include Health Law, Health Care Reform and Implementation; The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Public Health Law and Jurisprudence. I’ve also published numerous articles on the law and public health issues.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
