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    Public health law in a nutshell / James G. Hodge, Jr.

    • Title:Public health law in a nutshell / James G. Hodge, Jr.
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    • Variant Title:Public health law
    • Author/Creator:Hodge, James G., Jr., author.
    • Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2018]
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Public health laws--United States.
    • Medical Subjects: Public Health--legislation & jurisprudence
      Legislation as Topic
      United States
    • Genre/Form:Study guides.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xxxiv, 395 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
    • Series:Nutshell series.
    • Summary:"[This book provides an] assessment of the critical role of law in American society to protect the community's health. Understanding the field of public health law encompasses its constitutional sources and limits as well as historic and modern attempts to regulate in the interests of public health and safety. This Nutshell explains and addresses these issues within a modern framework supporting the role of law toward improved health outcomes. Updated to reflect key developments through mid-2017, the Nutshell's 11 chapters and 130+ graphics, illustrations, and figures lay out definitive legal issues underlying core public health powers to prevent and control communicable and chronic conditions, as well as injuries and related deaths. It also explores legal routes to counter other public health threats, including tobacco and alcohol use, guns, vehicles, and defective products. Additional chapters center on difficult trade-offs related to public health information surveillance and privacy, commercial speech regulation, zoning and the built environment, and emergency legal preparedness."-- Publisher's website.
    • Notes:Includes glossary of acronyms.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781634608206
      1634608208
    • Contents:The field of public health law
      Source & scope of public health legal powers
      Constitutional rights & the public's health
      Preventing & treating communicable conditions
      Social distancing measures
      Addressing chronic conditions
      Mitigating the incidence & severity of injuries & other harms
      Public health information management, privacy & security
      Regulating communications
      Monitoring property & the built environment
      Public health emergency legal preparedness & response.
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