Healthy by law: the missed opportunity to use laws for public health

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• 作者：Prof Amir Attaran ; DPhil^a ; ^{aattaran@uottawa.ca} ; Tikki Pang ; PhD^b ; Prof Judith Whitworth ; MD^c ; Prof Andrew Oxman ; MD^d ; Prof Martin McKee ; MD^e
• 刊名：The Lancet
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：21-27 January 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：379
• 期：9812
• 页码：283-285
• 全文大小：64 K

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Summary

Health is the result of biological and social determinants; both are important. Nature dictates the laws for biological determinants; people create the laws for social determinants. Nature's laws are hard to discover and are eternal whether or not they suit humanity; people's laws are easily written and can be changed at anytime to suit humanity better. So why is it that the public health community, which expends much effort and expense probing natural laws, places negligible emphasis on collection, analysis, and making greater use of the world's public health laws?