Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior: A Half Century of Public Health Law Research
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior: A Half Century of Public Health Law Research
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102612-134011
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2013-01-01
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Anderson, Evan
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Burris, Scott;Anderson, Evan
自20世纪60年代以来，影响个人健康行为的法律干预急剧增加。本文描述了法律作为公共卫生工具的兴起，以及评估和经常指导法律的科学研究，重点关注五个主要领域：交通安全、枪支暴力、烟草使用、生殖健康和肥胖。这些时事故事既说明了法律作为公共卫生工具的有效性，也说明了它的局限性。他们还通过最恰当的衡量标准——立法者颁布该法案的意愿——确立了该法案的受欢迎程度。这五个例子表明，随着时间的推移，公共卫生法研究能够而且确实影响法律干预措施的发展和完善。衡量法律的影响可能很困难，但该领域拥有产生可靠结果所需的理论和方法工具。公共卫生研究早该得到与其社会重要性相称的机构、专业和资金支持。
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool. They also establish its popularity by the most apt of metrics-the willingness of legislators to enact it. The five examples demonstrate that public health law research can and does influence the development and refinement of legal interventions over time. Measuring the impact of laws can be difficult, but the field has the tools of theory and methods necessary to produce robust results. It is past time for public health research to receive institutional, professional, and funding support commensurate with its social importance.