Three new datasets covering housing related laws were published today on LawAtlas.org, the Center for Public Health Research website dedicated to empirical legal datasets. The three datasets are:
Our team will be heading to Atlanta November 4-8, 2017 to participate in the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting. If you're joining us there, or following along from afar, here's what you can expect from the Center for Public Health Law Research and our programs.
Designed for public health practitioners, lawyers, researchers and scientists, government and healthcare officials, and business and community leaders, this three-part webinar series hosted by the Network for Public Health Law and the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics, will explore the interdisciplinary messaging teamwork necessary to fashion legal and policy interventions in these politically polarized times.
The Center for Public Health Law Research will join a town hall panel to discuss how the current political and legal environment may impact health and well-being.
A study published July 11, 2017 in Addiction finds that states are disparately regulating patient registration and civil rights, product safety labeling and packaging, and dispensaries, mimicking some aspects of federal prescription drug and controlled substances laws, and regulatory strategies used for alcohol, tobacco and traditional medicines.
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has supported public health law research, but not to the extent necessary to timely evaluate laws affecting the public’s health, according to a study published May 24, 2017 in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
The 2011 increase in Maryland’s alcohol sales tax led to a decrease in traffic injuries involving alcohol, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Three specific economic policies, namely higher tax credits for the poor, increasing state-level minimum wages and not requiring union membership as a condition of employment, can have positive health benefits, according to a study out today in Health Affairs.
Four percent of Florida prescribers account for the majority of opioids on the market, according to a study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The study finds that these Florida high-risk prescribers accounted for 67 percent of the opioid volume and 40 percent of the total opioid prescriptions dispensed in the state between July 2010 and June 2011.
A 2011 Boston regulation that set minimum pricing and packaging requirements has successfully reduced the availability of fruit-flavored cigars that were becoming increasingly popular among youth, according to a new study published in Tobacco Control.
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