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This chapter reviews legal approaches that can be used to promote public health and address specific health problems. Legal approaches include prohibiting or mandating conduct; creating and enforcing licensing and permitting schemes; and increasing the costs of unhealthy conduct through taxes or litigation and incentivizing healthy conduct through loans, grants, and tax credits. Legal approaches can also address public health challenges by changing the informational environment with labeling requirements or reporting mandates or modifying the built environment through zoning or complete streets policies. The chapter identifies potential constitutional and practical limitations to each approach. |
