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Health Law and Policy

2012

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Medical Marijuana: A Study Of Unintended Consequences, Gerald Caplan Jan 2012

Medical Marijuana: A Study Of Unintended Consequences, Gerald Caplan

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Why The Initiative Process Is The Wrong Way To Go: Lessons We Should Have Learned From Proposition 215, Michael Vitiello Jan 2012

Why The Initiative Process Is The Wrong Way To Go: Lessons We Should Have Learned From Proposition 215, Michael Vitiello

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Health Equity, Healthy People 2020, And Coercive Legal Mechanisms As Necessary For The Achievement Of Both, Emily Whelan Parento Jan 2012

Health Equity, Healthy People 2020, And Coercive Legal Mechanisms As Necessary For The Achievement Of Both, Emily Whelan Parento

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Principles of health equity require that all people have equal opportunity to develop and maintain their health, yet in the face of widespread and presumptively inequitable health disparities, the law has done little. This paper argues that health equity demands the use of coercive legal mechanisms in certain circumstances given the existence of current disparities and the evidence of effectiveness of direct regulation as compared to its alternatives. Moreover, the paper argues that Healthy People 2020, which is the nation's “master blueprint for health” and explicitly seeks to achieve health equity, has not fully incorporated the principles of health equity …