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Assessing Laws and Legal Authorities for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Brian Kamoie ,
Robert M. Pestronk ,
Peter Baldridge ,
David Fidler ,
Leah Devlin ,
George A. Mensah  and
Michael Doney
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Public health legal preparedness begins with effective legal authorities, and law provides a key foundation for public health practice in the United States. Laws not only create public health agencies and fund them, but also authorize and impose duties upon government to protect the public's health while preserving individual liberties. As a result, law is an essential tool in public health practice and is one element of public health infrastructure, as it defines the systems and relationships within which public health practitioners operate.

For purposes of this paper, law can be defined as a rule of conduct derived from federal or state constitutions, statutes, local laws, judicial opinions, administrative rules and regulations, international codes, or other pronouncements by entities authorized to prescribe conduct in a legally binding manner. Public health legal preparedness, a subset of public health preparedness, is defined as attainment of legal benchmarks within a public health system.

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Special Supplement
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 36 , Issue S1 , Spring 2008 , pp. 23 - 27
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2008

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