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- Title
Better Health Faster: The 5 Essential Public Health Law Services.
- Authors
Burris, Scott; Ashe, Marice; Blanke, Doug; Ibrahim, Jennifer; Levin, Donna E.; Matthews, Gene; Penn, Matthew; Katz, Martha
- Abstract
The authors elaborates the five essential services of public health law. These include ensuring access to evidence and expertise, designing legal solutions, engaging communities and building political will, enforcing and defending legal solutions and monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of policy. The authors also highlight the importance of a strong public health law infrastructure for evidence-informed health law and improved population health.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT policy; HEALTH systems agencies; MEDICAL quality control; PRACTICAL politics; LEGAL procedure; PUBLIC health; PUBLIC health surveillance; QUALITY assurance
- Publication
Public Health Reports, 2016, Vol 131, Issue 6, p747
- ISSN
0033-3549
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1177/0033354916667496