Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

CONTEXT For three decades, experts have been stressing the importance of law to the effective operation of public health systems. Most recently, in a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine recommended a review of state and local public health laws to ensure appropriate authority for public health agencies; adequate access to legal counsel for public health agencies; evaluations of the health ef...

Public health services and systems research.

Environmental public health systems and services research.

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

From Health Care Law to the Social Determinants of Health: a Public Health Law Research Perspective

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1649 I. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ............................................ 1652 II. FINDING LAW IN THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF HEALTH.............. 1655 III. DEFINING A ROLE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH LAW RESEARCH ............. 1662 CONCLUSION ..............................................................

A national research agenda for public health services and systems.

The field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) has emerged over the past decade to produce the evidence needed to address critical uncertainties about how best to organize, finance, and deliver effective public health strategies to all Americans. To advance these efforts, a national PHSSR research agenda-setting process was used to identify a broad inventory of information nee...