Law enforcement, public health, and so much more

Public health and law enforcement: future directions.

Public health reasoning: much more than deduction

The deductive paradigm has produced notable successes in epidemiology and public health. But while deductive logic has made a substantial contribution to the public health field, it must be recognized that there are also limits to that contribution. This report examines one such limit: the need for non-deductive models in public health reasoning. The findings of a study of public health reasoni...

Law Enforcement and Public Administration

Nurses have so much to bring to public health.

Nursing Standard is published during PHE’s week of action, held to promote and celebrate the contribution of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals as ‘health-promoting practitioners’. This will be followed next Tuesday by PHE’s annual nursing conference, where the Framework for Personalised Care and Population Health will be published. The title reveals the challenge: providing perso...

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL LAW Steven

This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents -such as police, tax inspectors, regulatory personnel -to enforce legal rules. A number of important dimensions of public law enfor...