Legal epidemiology is the scientific study and deployment of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population.
Legal epidemiology encompasses legal etiology, legal prevention and control, and policy surveillance theory and methods to
Legal epidemiology is deeply rooted in a transdisciplinary approach to public health law - calling for true integration of disciplines to collaborate in developing and applying legal epidemiology theory, methods, and conceptual tools. The consumers of legal epidemiology are just as a diverse as the practitioners, and include lawyers, researchers, epidemiologists, social scientists, policymakers, public health practitioners, advocates, the media, and the public.
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