Public Health Law Research (ePub)

Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods
definitively explores the mechanisms, theories and models central
to public health law research - a growing field dedicated to
measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public
health.

Editors Alexander C. Wagenaar and Scott Burris outline
integrated theory drawn from numerous disciplines in the social and
behavioral sciences; specific mechanisms of legal effect and
guidelines for collecting and coding empirical datasets of
statutory and case law; optimal research designs for randomized
trials and natural experiments for public health law evaluation;
and methods for qualitative and cost-benefit studies of law.. They
also discuss the challenge of effectively translating the results
of scientific evaluations into public health laws and highlight the
impact of this growing field.

"How exactly the law can best be used as a tool for
protecting and enhancing the public's health has long been
the subject of solely opinion and anecdote. Enter Public
Health Law Research, a discipline designed to bring the bright
light of science to the relationships between law and health.
This book is a giant step forward in illuminating that
subject." -- Stephen Teret, JD, MPH, Professor, Director,
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health

"Wagenaar and Burris bring a dose of much needed rigor to
the empirical study of which public health law interventions really
matter, and which don't." -- Bernard S. Black, JD,
Chabraja Professor, Northwestern University Law School and Kellogg
School of Management

Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/wagenaar