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. 2020 Jul/Aug;135(1_suppl):25S-31S.
doi: 10.1177/0033354920912991.

Law Everywhere: A Causal Framework for Law and Infectious Disease

Aaron J Siegler  1 , Kelli A Komro  1 , Alexander C Wagenaar  1
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Law Everywhere: A Causal Framework for Law and Infectious Disease

Aaron J Siegler et al. Public Health Rep. 2020 Jul/Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: legal epidemiology; policy evaluation; public health law research; social determinants of health.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors disclosed the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: AJS is an investigator on a grant funded by Gilead Foundation, paid to his institution.

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Causal framework of the impact of law on prevention and treatment continua for infectious diseases. Arrows represent the causal pathway from law to health outcomes, through living conditions that influence exposures and behaviors and, ultimately, health outcomes. The pathway may be moderated by individual-level susceptibility factors. Ovals clarify that a law may have a net positive or net negative effect. Adapted from Komro et al. Abbreviation: LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual.
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