legal epidemiology

  • Read more: Housing Law and Health Equity: No Bliss in Ignorance
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    Housing Law and Health Equity: No Bliss in Ignorance

    Much of the housing in the U.S. is expensive, unsafe, and inadequate in supply. A new article outlines 23 legal mechanisms, or levers, that may impact health equity in housing in the U.S.

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  • Read more: Maps Outlining State Fair Housing Laws, State Landlord-Tenant Laws, and City Nuisance Property Laws are Now Available on LawAtlas
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    Maps Outlining State Fair Housing Laws, State Landlord-Tenant Laws, and City Nuisance Property Laws are Now Available on LawAtlas

    Three new datasets covering housing related laws were published today on LawAtlas.org, the Center for Public Health Research website dedicated to empirical legal datasets. The three datasets are: State Fair Housing Protections – covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia City Nuisance Property Ordinances – covers the 40 most populous cities in the…

  • Read more: Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?
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    Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?

    Paul Erwin, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health, recently wrote about the establishment of a  Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance System for Policy Change Impact,  or what might be called “sentinel policy surveillance.” The network of twelve diverse health officers will be trying to identify and share instances of harmful impact from Trump administration policies. Erwin…

  • Read more: New Research: Legal Epidemiology in the Literature
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    New Research: Legal Epidemiology in the Literature

    It’s a rainy day on the East Coast; what better way to get through the damp than four new legal epidemiology articles? Our colleagues have published papers examining vaccine policies, telehealth reimbursement policies, scope of practice laws for health care providers, and the field of legal epidemiology as a whole: Legal Epidemiology: The Science of…

  • Read more: Webinars: ASPPH Two-Part Series on PHLR
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    Webinars: ASPPH Two-Part Series on PHLR

    CPHLR is joining forces with the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) for a free, two-part webinar series on public health law research and policy data evaluation. Public Health Law Research Part I: Creating and Using Open-Source Policy Data for Public Health Evaluation Research March 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm…

  • Read more: WEBINARS: Policy Surveillance Methods
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    WEBINARS: Policy Surveillance Methods

    Join the Policy Surveillance Program for our new monthly webinar series teaching introductory and advanced policy surveillance techniques and applications. Learn more and register today for our one-hour sessions!