Objectives: This review examines the effects of family economic security policies on child and family health outcomes, formulates a framework for possible mechanisms of effect, and introduces our policy surveillance system to measure changes in state laws affecting social determinants of health....

Objective: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funds and conducts research on legal epidemiology, which is the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease in a population. This study describes the results of a scan of articles...

This case presents the Court with an opportunity to determine the proper scope of the Drug Distribution Resulting in Death (DDRD) sentencing enhancement provision. The provision, its parent statute, and the totality of modern federal law and policy to stem the overdose crisis are intended to...

Evidence from international evaluations suggests that safe injection facilities (SIFs) may represent a medically effective and economically efficient strategy for reducing the incidence and harms of injection drug use among the chronically homeless and otherwise marginalized people. The success...

Removal of legal barriers to syringe access has been identified as an important part of a comprehensive approach to reducing HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). Legal barriers include both law on the books and law on the streets, i.e., the actual practices of law enforcement...

Emerging Issues in Chinese Health Law is a survey of some of the most pertinent issues in health law, health regulation, and public health now unfolding in China. It is being published in Chinese with English translations of the article abstracts. Chapter topics include HIV/AIDS control, access...

To explore the intersections between the threats posed by new public health challenges and new theories of governance, in March 2004 Temple Law School's Institute for International Law and Public Policy hosted a meeting on SARS, Public Health and Global Governance. The meeting involved leading...

Throughout the HIV epidemic, criminal law has been invoked to deter and punish sexual transmission. The public health community has not favored the enactment of criminal laws specifically targeting people with HIV, nor endorsed the application of general criminal laws to HIV - but neither has it...

Historically, public health law has been shaped by the social response to serious epidemics. Boards of health and full-fledged health departments were created in the late 18 and 19th centuries in response to yellow fever and cholera. Disease reporting, mandatory screening, and compulsory...