- Winnable Battles - Obesity and Nutrition Prevention Compendia
- Clearinghouse - Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness Clearinghouse
- TB Control - Legal Tools for Tuberculosis Control
Law is an important public health tool that plays a critical role in reducing illness and premature death. Public health law examines the authority of the government at various jurisdictional levels to improve the health of the general population within societal limits and norms.
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Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness Clearinghouse
Federal Legal Authority
Basic Information, Legal Framework...
Outbreaks & Disasters
Natural Disasters, Man-made Disasters, Health Emergencies...
Legal Tools
Bench-book portfolio, Multi-Sector Documents, Mutual Aid Template, SDLP Template…
Quarantine & Isolation
Quarantine, Social Distancing …
Public Health Law Topics
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS,
- Influenza,
- TB...
- Chronic Disease
- Asthma,
- Cancer,
- Obesity...
- Environmental Health
- Air,
- Climate Change,
- Healthy Homes,
- Land Use,
- Water
- Winnable Battles
- Nutrition/Obesity/Physical Activity,
Conferences / Summits
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The 2008 National Summit on Legal Preparedness
for Obesity Prevention and Control took place
on June 15-18, 2008. This Summit was co-sponsored by
CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion. - Previous Summits PHLP commenced invitational summits in 2007 to better focus on building templates of best practices in public health law.
- Previous Conferences PHLP has been sponsoring conferences for public health law representatives since 2003.
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