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- Title
The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Public Health Policy Surveillance.
- Authors
Hodge Jr., James G.
- Abstract
Though public health policy surveillance is an integral tool in correlating the law to scientifically based public health law studies, drawing accurate legal conclusions from collected data can be challenging. Data may be of poor quality, inaccessible to law and policy makers, or inapplicable to other jurisdictions over time and place. As Burris et al. (2016) advocate, modern, sophisticated, and interactive data collection systems would render more precise legal analysis tied to public health improvements. Although policy surveillance is promising, public health officials, health care providers, attorneys, and researchers must be skilled and prepared to successfully navigate and resolve potential pitfalls for its benefits to be fully realized. Among the significant challenges related to policy surveillance are: (1) timing; (2) agenda setting; (3) predictable misuse; and (4) politics inherent in a federalist public health legal infrastructure. As public health data infrastructure is developed, better legal approaches must be simultaneously crafted to achieve optimal public health outcomes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC health laws; HEALTH policy; PUBLIC health surveillance; DATA analytics
- Publication
Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 6, p1175
- ISSN
0361-6878
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/03616878-3665976