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Improving Legal Competencies for Obesity Prevention and Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Sheila Fleischhacker ,
Alice Ammerman ,
Wendy Collins Perdue ,
Joan Miles ,
Sarah Roller ,
Lynn Silver ,
Lisa Soronen  and
Leticia Van de Putte
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This paper is one of four interrelated papers resulting from the National Summit on Legal Preparedness for Obesity Prevention and Control (Summit) convened in June 2008 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Society of Law, Medicine, Ethics. Each of the papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness: (1) laws and legal authorities for public health practitioners; (2) legal competencies public health practitioners and legal and policy decision makers need for use of these laws and authorities; (3) crossdisciplinary and cross-jurisdiction coordination of law-based public health actions; and (4) information on public health law best practices. Collectively, they are referenced as the “white papers.”

Our purpose is to offer action options that will help to improve the legal competencies of public health practitioners and policy decision makers with respect to drafting, interpreting.

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JLME Supplement
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 37 , Issue S1 , Summer 2009 , pp. 76 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2009

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