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Lessons Learned from a Narrative Review of Studies Researching the Impact of Law on Health and Economic Outcomes

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Lauren Tonti, on behalf of co-authors Dawn Pepin, Rebekah St Clair Sims, Jaya Khushalani, Megan A. Kelly, Suhang Song, Aziza Arifkhanova, Rachel Hulkower, Brian H. Calhoun, Richard W. Puddy, Jennifer W. Kaminski

This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Jan 2024

Insights from a multidisciplinary team’s review of studies linking law and policy with health and economic outcomes reveal ways to strengthen methods used to conduct health policy research.

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How Policy Surveillance Can Support Public Health

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Matthew Fifolt, Sean McMahon, Tessa Graham, and Lisa McCormick

Policy surveillance provides an opportunity for public health researchers and practitioners to identify gaps in policy and program coverage as well as best practices in leveraging policy for public health interventions.

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Variation of State-Issued Nonpharmaceutical Interventions During the Pandemic

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Heesoo Joo, Mara Howard-Williams, Russell F. McCord, Gregory Sunshine, James A. Fuller, and Brian A. Maskery

The proportion of the US population subject to state-issued COVID-19 prevention measures varied greatly throughout the pandemic. During periods of high disease transmission and low coverage of state-issued measures, local or federal interventions may provide additional layers of protection if local or federal governments can issue prevention policies for their jurisdictions. Research demonstrates that early, sustained, and layered implementation of

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Public Health Perspectives Podcast: Educating the Future of Legal Epidemiology

Posted on February 25, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Camelia Singletary, MPH Public Health Perspectives is a podcast series targeted towards strengthening the future public health workforce by exploring the narratives of public health care professionals to gain insight on career paths that shape the profession. In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Lindsay Cloud and Lance Gable discuss legal epidemiology. Lindsay Cloud is the director of the

Infographic: Defining Legal Epidemiology for Practice

Posted on February 18, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Colleen Barbero, Lindsay K. Cloud, Lance Gable, Siobhan Gilchrist, Bethany Saxon Law is indispensable to public health management and practice. The field of legal epidemiology has emerged to provide public health law and non-lawyer professionals with the research tools to conduct timely and rigorous evaluations of the impact of law and legal practices on health. The field also helps

Seven Things You Should Know about Legal Epidemiology

Posted on February 11, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Colleen Barbero, Lindsay K. Cloud, Lance Gable, Siobhan Gilchrist, Bethany Saxon Legal epidemiology is the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population. In the United States, 9 of the top 10 leading causes of death are caused by chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic obstructive lung