Author:
Parmet Wendy E.,Robbins Anthony
Abstract
Public health professionals recognize the critical role the law plays in determining the success of public health measures. Even before September 11, 2001, public health experience with tobacco use, HIV, industrial pollution and other potent threats to the health of the public demonstrated that laws can assist or thwart public health efforts. The new focus on infectious threats and bioterrorism, starting with the anthrax attacks through the mail and continuing with SARS, has highlighted the important role of law.For lawyers to serve as effective partners in public health, they should have a basic familiarity with public health: how public health professionals see the world and the key issues they tackle. A practical grasp of public health can be acquired, and often is acquired, “on the job.”
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Health Policy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects
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1. 52. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) (city violated the Fourteenth Amendment when in the name of public health, San Francisco officials refused permission to operate a laundry to Chinese owned businesses).
2. 111. See text accompanying notes 96–99 supra.
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