The Public Health Law Manual

This valuable manual explores the legal aspects of the public health field. It is specifically geared to public health professionals who enforce, administer, and provide health services and is frequently used as a text in public health courses as well as in health law courses.

The second edition provides public health professionals with a guide to legal aspects of their field in an easily accessible form. It is designed to advance the cause of public health by promoting effective professional communication between public health specialists and public health lawyers.

Contents include recognizing and managing legal problems, effective communication with lawyers, legal sources of public health powers, protection of individual rights, laws relating to communicable diseases, including AIDS, permits, licenses ,and registrations, searches and inspections, embargo and seizures, and more.