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January 4, 2011 | Program Result Report
Knowledge Asset: Case studies describe the nature of the threats of litigation against public health law and provide insight into how the public health officials responded to the threats.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: By bringing together state and local officials, their federal counterparts and diverse stakeholders of the food safety system, this project developed an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the food safety system.
November 24, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing documented the scope, breadth and content of local public health ordinances and developed a blueprint for drawing up ordinances.
October 8, 2010 | Program Result Report
From November 2005 to March 2010, the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund led a coalition of six tobacco control groups named as "public health intervenors" in a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against tobacco companies.
October 1, 2010 | Report
The Attorneys General of the 50 states have considerable legal authority to protect the public's health, yet their role in the development of health policy is often under-appreciated or misunderstood. This paper analyzes their current powers and provides a logic model that illustrates how the use of these powers can lead to the protection and promotion of the public's health.
September 22, 2010 | Journal Article
State attorneys generals have increasingly supported health and health care through litigation, investigative activities and policy reform work. Looking forward they will play an important role as reform moves out of the legislative arena.
September 14, 2010 | Commentary
related websites Browse coverage of "Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public’s Health," a national conference held Sept. 13-15, 2010, in Atlanta. Visit the Public Health Law Network. From smoke-free regulations in restaurants and bars, ...
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The potential for population health reform could be enhanced by assessing whether we have made the cost of policies and resources already available.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article is a practical how-to guide in applying the scientific method to measure the law for quantitative research.