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- Title
Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law: A Call for Action.
- Authors
Mello, Michelle M.; Wood, Jennifer; Burris, Scott; Wagenaar, Alexander C.; Ibrahim, Jennifer K.; Swanson, Jeffrey W.
- Abstract
Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to change through law and for which an effective legal intervention is available: optimizing graduated driver licensing laws, increasing tax rates on alcoholic beverages, regulating sodium in foods, enacting laws to facilitate reversal of opioid overdoses, and improving mental health interventions in the college setting. We call for a national conversation about critical opportunities for public health law to advance evidence-based policymaking.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MENTAL health services; DRUG overdose; PUBLIC health laws; TRAFFIC safety; PUBLIC health; SOCIAL problems; AUTOMOBILE drivers' tests; COLLEGE students; ALCOHOL drinking; SODIUM content of food; NARCOTICS; SOCIAL control; TAXATION; STUDENT health services; PREVENTION
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2013, Vol 103, Issue 11, p1979
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2013.301281