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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Public Health Law: The Emerging Practice of Legal Epidemiology
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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.
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- Authors
- Burris, S., Ashe, M., Levin, D., Penn, M., & Larkin, M.
- Affiliations
- Temple University (US)
- ChangeLab Solutions (US)
- Network for Public Health Law, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105;
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2016-03-18
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 135-148
- ISSN
- 0163-7525 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2093
- PMC
- PMC5703193
- OpenAlex
- W1921221872
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 1.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-RFA-OT13-1302, OT13-1302)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Healthcare Regulation
- Keywords
- public health law, legal epidemiology, transdisciplinary research, policy monitoring, legal intervention
- MeSH terms
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Epidemiology, Humans, Legislation as Topic, Public Health, United States, Interdisciplinary Communication, Policy
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