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New Legal Mapping Method Highlights Recent Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders

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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Research for the dataset was provided by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Tennessee).

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Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID

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By Elizabeth Pendo Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the need for public health laws and policies that align with and reinforce civil rights protections for disproportionately impacted populations is greater than ever. Simeone Professor of Law and a member of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law.

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Combatting Elder Abuse in Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Monitoring

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even examining the definition of “elder abuse” in a handful of states results in differing definitions. Federal law includes a definition of elder abuse in the Older Americans Act but does not criminalize it. The lack of a universally accepted definition of elder abuse could be hampering its identification in the U.S.

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Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight

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Kapp During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Establishment (PHE)/legal enterprise collaborative fell short of constitutional standards in a number of situations, resulting in adverse judicial rulings of which the PHE and its like-minded academic advocates now complain. By Marshall B.

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The HIPAA Definition of Covered Entities Explained

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The HIPAA definition of Covered Entities is generally explained as health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers that conduct electronic transactions for which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed standards. The HIPAA Definition of Covered Entities.

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Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

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HUD can amend 24 CFR §982.553 to narrow public housing exclusions linked to drug use to situations in which a person’s use of illegal drugs is causing observable harm to the premises or the community, and tighten key definitions to better guide local public housing agencies. Code § 32) by making the tax credit monthly.

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On Searching for the Unknown with Unspeakable Names: Searching PubMed for Disability Research

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This lack of consensus and consistency across professional disability terms, categories, and definitions contributes to a lack of comparability, discoverability, and access for disability data as well as research. Disability language is TOO MUCH In our work, we identified many definitions of disability, but no consensus.