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Public Health Law

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Encyclopedia of Public Health

Introduction

Law makes public health possible. Law is of vital importance for public health theory and practice. The analysis of the interrelationship between law and public health documents that the theory and practice of public health significantly relies on law (Parmet 2007). Therefore, leading scholars characterize the interrelation between law and public health as strong. As such, Frank Grad states that “the field of public health is firmly grounded in law” (Grad 1990); Wendy Parmet describes the fact that even historically law has been the “chief tool of public health” (Parmet 2007) and Lawrence Gostin regards law as “a very important tool in furthering the public’s health” (Gostin 2000a). Similarly, law is highly valued as “fundamental to the practice of public health” (Lopez and Frieden 2007), “indispensable to the public’s health” (Moulton et al. 2002), or “vital to public health” (Gostin et al. 2007) or for its “central role in contemporary public health” (Moulton et al. 2007...

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Koyuncu, A. (2008). Public Health Law . In: Kirch, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Public Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7_2866

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