Public Health
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Legal foundations of public health law and its role in meeting future challenges

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 This article is adapted from Gostin LO. Law and ethics in population health. Aust & New Zealand J Pub Health; 2004; 28:7-12. An expanded version of this article is forthcoming in: Gostin LO. Public health law: power, duty, restraint 2nd ed. Berkeley and New York: University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund.

PII: S0033-3506(06)00187-9

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.07.006

Public Health
Volume 120 , Pages 8-14 , October 2006