{"id":1335,"date":"2009-01-02T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:38","slug":"laws-as-a-public-health-tool-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Laws as a Public Health Tool : A review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review &#8220;The Scientific Basis for Law as a Public Health Tool&#8221; was published in November 2008. The researchers from CDC identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient evidence to judge effectiveness, 1 was harmful, and 1 was found to be ineffective. This is a valuable, scientific foundation&#8217;\u201dthat uses the highest relevant standard of evidence&#8217;\u201dfor the role of law as a public health tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajph.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/AJPH.2007.130278v1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review &#8220;The Scientific Basis for Law as a Public Health Tool&#8221; was published in November 2008. The researchers from CDC identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient evidence to judge effectiveness, 1 was harmful, and 1 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13,14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}