The new public health law : a transdisciplinary approach to practice and advocacy /
"This book offers a new approach to teaching and learning public health law. At its heart is a "transdisciplinary" model of public health law, one that recognizes that many different kinds of professionals in public health are using law and need to have the training and skills to appl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book offers a new approach to teaching and learning public health law. At its heart is a "transdisciplinary" model of public health law, one that recognizes that many different kinds of professionals in public health are using law and need to have the training and skills to apply it effectively in their work: non-lawyers in public health design legal initiatives, advocate for legal reform, implement the law, and monitor and evaluate its effects. For their part, lawyers in public health law practice also do many things beyond their core job description and training in law. They work with epidemiological and behavioral data that define problems and inform legal solutions. They collaborate with others to study the law's implementation and impact. They make the case for public health in the political process. This book supports a public health law and policy course that teaches students in law schools, schools of public health, social work, and other non-JD programs to do these things-and do them collaboratively, using shared frameworks and language"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197616000 0197616003 9780197615980 0197615988 9780197615997 0197615996 |