273139 Public health law implications: Moving from a political kill zone to the great reset

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 : 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Gene Matthews, JD , North Carolina Institute for Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
     
Many public health agencies are under economic and political pressure to change their governance or organizational structure, with an emphasis on downsizing, merging functions, and reducing the role of local health agencies to only legally required functions. At the same time, public health agencies are responding to changes in the way that health care is delivered and paid for. This presentation will discuss strategies for how public agencies can respond to these pressures and survive the Great Recession.

Learning Areas:
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
1. Descrine the restructuring options for local public health agencies. 2. Identify an area of legal technical assistance that can facilitate the process of structural and organizational change talking place in public health agencies.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Director of the Southeastern Region of the Network for Public Health Law and senior fellow at the NC Institute for Public Health at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. I currently conduct legal research, provide technical assistance to public health practitioners on legal topics and teach courses on leadership in health law and ethics for the UNC Doctoral Program in Health Leadership.
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.

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