What is public health? -- Public health, philosophy, and ethics -- The evolution of public health law and regulation -- Introduction to twenty-first century public health law -- Private law and public health -- Criminal law and public health -- Public law and public health -- International and global health law -- "Soft law", self-regulation, and public health -- Future developments and directions.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Public health activity, and the state's public health responsibilities to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy, can only be achieved through different means of social coordination. This places law and regulation at the heart of public health. They are fundamental both to methods of achieving public health goals and to constraints that may be put on public health activity. As such, trainees, practitioners, and leaders in public health need to understand the breadth and nature of wide-ranging legal and regulatory approaches and the place of ethics in public health. [This book] defines and examines this crucial area of study and practice. It advances an agenda whose scope extends far beyond that covered in traditional medical law and health care law texts. The authors provide an account of the scale of contemporary public health policy and practice and explain its philosophical depths and implications and its long legislative and regulatory history. They advance a definition of the field and explore how different legal approaches may serve and advance or constrain and delimit public health agendas. This ... book presents the field of public health ethics and law and goes on to examine the impact within the UK of private law, criminal law, public law, EU and international law, and 'softer' regulatory approaches."--
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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Proquest Ebook Central
Stock Number
4766880
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Public health law.
International Standard Book Number
9781138790759
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Health services administration.
Medical policy.
Legislation as Topic.
Public Health-- legislation & jurisprudence.
Health services administration.
Medical policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.