Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods

Public Health Law Research: Theory and Method defines core theories and research methods for the field of public health law research.?Public health law has re-emerged as an important field of legal scholarship and professional work in public health. Research that can identify healthy and unhealthy laws and legal practices has not kept pace with the growth of the field, however, making this book both important and timely.

Public Health Law Research is the first book to explain methods for measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public health, and is edited by the two foremost public health law researchers in country. The book will have five parts. Foundations frames the content of the book, and the specific field of public health law research we are building in the broader conceptual area. Theory is central to the design of any scientific study, and is the subject of the second section.?

The third section of the book is on collecting the requisite data, with all three chapters of this section very targeted to the particular complexities in collecting data for empirical studies of law. The fourth section of the book addresses research design issues directly applicable to public health law evaluations. The fifith and final section of the book discusses the challenge of translating the results of scientific evaluations into widely diffused and implemented public health laws and the importance of this nascent but growing field. Part I: Introduction 1.?????

A Framework for Public Health Law Research. 2.????? Law in Public Health Systems and Services Research. Part II: Theories of How Law Influences Health, Health Behavior and the Environment 3.? Conceptualizing Legal Research: The Value of Causal Diagrams and Logic Models. 4.? Mechanisms of Legal Effect:? Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences. 5. Mechanisms of Legal Effect:? Perspectives from Criminology 6.? Mechanisms of Legal Effect: Theories of Procedural Justice 7. Mechanisms of Legal Effect:? Perspectives from Law and Society Tradition 8. Mechanisms of Legal Effect:?

Perspectives from Economics 9.? Integrating Diverse Theories for Public Health Law Evaluation Part III: Collecting Data for PH Law Evaluation 10.? Measuring Law for Empirical Research. 11.? Coding Case Law for Public Health Law Evaluation. 12.? Sources/Datasets on Public Health Law Part IV: Research Designs and Approaches for Public Health Law Evaluation 13.? Evaluating Public Health Law Using Randomized Experiments. 14.? Research Design Elements for Optimal Causal Inference without Randomization. 15.? Using Qualitative Research Strategies for Public Health Law Evaluation.?

Part V: Conclusions 16,? The Future of PH Law Research.

Book Details

• Author: Alexander C. Wagenaar, Scott C. Burris
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• eBook ISBN: 9781118419236, 1118419235
• Print ISBN: 9781118137628, 1118137620
• Other ISBNs: 9781118420881, 9781118591185