PBH 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Passive Smoking, Colorectal Cancer, Collective Responsibility
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Components of health law policy and ethics: healthcare: access, quality, and cost of health care. Public health: population health and safety. Bioethics: application of group values and morals to controversial areas. Health and health care: us constitution does not mention health. Does not say that public health is required by the government. It allows it but does not require it. What legal principles underlie public health: police power- primarily at state level, limited by the rights afforded to individuals. Interstate commerce clause is the major source of federal authority in public health and health care. Can tax, spend, and regulate interstate commerce. Individual rights verses the common good: us constitution grants individual rights. Inferred rights are often the basis: private and public entities work towards common goals to achieve improved health for all while reducing health inequities, can be made: How are public health policy priorities established: healthy people prioritizes the issues that affect the population.
