PUBLIC HEALTH LAW (2) (UCI185)

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Focuses on the major modern problems of how state action and funding may be used to promote public health through prevention, treatment, and behavioral restraint. Topics include the emergence of public health as an area of professional and legal practice; legal and policy implications of epidemiologic surveillance of disease; clinical diagnostic testing and implications for privacy rights and disease control; constitutional limits on public health practice, especially under- and over-inclusiveness of coercive state actions to further public health; legal aspects and methods of behavioral restraints, especially quarantine and involuntary civil commitment; and legal and policy implications of state funding of disease prevention and treatment. The course relies extensively on examples drawn from AIDS, tuberculosis, venereal disease, reproductive technology and options, and health care cost containment.