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2011

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Health Law and Policy

Public health

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Public Health Legal Services: A New Vision, David I. Schulman, Ellen Lawton, Paul R. Tremblay, Randye Retkin, Megan Sandel Nov 2011

Public Health Legal Services: A New Vision, David I. Schulman, Ellen Lawton, Paul R. Tremblay, Randye Retkin, Megan Sandel

Paul R. Tremblay

In recent years, the medical profession has begun to collaborate more and more with lawyers in order to accomplish important health objectives for patients. That collaboration invites a revisioning of legal services delivery models and of public health constructs, leading to a concept we develop in this article, and call "public health legal services." The phrase encompasses those legal services provided by non-government attorneys to low-income persons the outcomes of which when evaluated in the aggregate using traditional public health measures advance the public's health. This conception of public health legal services has emerged most prominently from innovative developments in …

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Building Public Health Law Capacity At The Local Level, Diane Hoffmann, Virginia Rowthorn Oct 2011

Building Public Health Law Capacity At The Local Level, Diane Hoffmann, Virginia Rowthorn

Diane Hoffmann

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The Affordable Care Act’S Preventive Services Mandate: Breaking Down The Barriers To Nationwide Access To Preventive Services, John Aloysius Cogan Jr. Dec 2010

The Affordable Care Act’S Preventive Services Mandate: Breaking Down The Barriers To Nationwide Access To Preventive Services, John Aloysius Cogan Jr.

John Aloysius Cogan Jr.

The most prominent - and certainly the most controversial - feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the so-called "individual mandate," which attempts to address the problem of 50 million uninsured by requiring nearly all Americans, beginning in 2014, to obtain health insurance. While expanded access to health insurance has been both the cornerstone and the lightening rod of the ACA, the Act also contains significant public health provisions focusing on, among other things, promoting the availability of prevention and wellness services. Although these public health provisions have been greeted with mixed reviews, there has been very …

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Alternatives To Criminalization Of Hiv Transmission And Exposure, Aziza Ahmed Dec 2010

Alternatives To Criminalization Of Hiv Transmission And Exposure, Aziza Ahmed

Aziza Ahmed

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