Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data
The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.
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Read more: A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers
The law surrounding reasonable modifications in health care is well-settled, but practical realities pose challenges to securing accommodations.
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Read more: Personal Crusades for Public Health Personal Crusades for Public Health
Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades.
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Read more: Reclaiming Salus Populi Reclaiming Salus Populi
Public health law needs its own long-term plan. Such a strategy must re-establish salus populi, the recognition that public health is central to law.
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Read more: Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy
If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination.
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Read more: Weathering the Climate Crisis: The Health Benefits and Policy Challenges of Home Weatherization Weathering the Climate Crisis: The Health Benefits and Policy Challenges of Home Weatherization
Weatherization is an important tool to meet vulnerable communities’ energy needs, and to combat negative health effects of climate change.
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Read more: Climate Change and Pregnancy: Policies for Impact Climate Change and Pregnancy: Policies for Impact
The ongoing, worsening environmental crisis is exacerbating negative pregnancy outcomes associated with climate change.
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Read more: Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law
Debates exist over whether structural racism is a social determinant of health, and whether dismantling it is within the scope of public health law.
