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March 2009, Vol 99, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 423-430
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.140913

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW

Transitions in State Public Health Law: Comparative Analysis of State Public Health Law Reform Following the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, James G. Hodge, Jr, JD, LLM and Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN

At the time of the study, Benjamin Mason Meier and Kristine M. Gebbie were with the Center for Health Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY. James G. Hodge Jr is with the Centers for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, Baltimore, MD.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Executive Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health, Hampton House 513, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: jhodge{at}jhsph.edu).

Given the public health importance of law modernization, we undertook a comparative analysis of policy efforts in 4 states (Alaska, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nebraska) that have considered public health law reform based on the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act.

Through national legislative tracking and state case studies, we investigated how the Turning Point Act's model legal language has been considered for incorporation into state law and analyzed key facilitating and inhibiting factors for public health law reform.

Our findings provide the practice community with a research base to facilitate further law reform and inform future scholarship on the role of law as a determinant of the public's health.






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