The Legacy of 1987 Boreali v. Axelrod

Board of Health Rule-Making Under Siege

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ID11035843
AuthorsSarah B Perl (Sarah B. Perl is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York. Thomas G. Merrill is and Wilfredo Lopez was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York City Board of Health, New York. At the time of writing, Mary T. Bassett was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the New York City Board of Health.), Thomas G Merrill (Sarah B. Perl is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York. Thomas G. Merrill is and Wilfredo Lopez was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York City Board of Health, New York. At the time of writing, Mary T. Bassett was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the New York City Board of Health.), Wilfredo Lopez (Sarah B. Perl is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York. Thomas G. Merrill is and Wilfredo Lopez was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York City Board of Health, New York. At the time of writing, Mary T. Bassett was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the New York City Board of Health.), Mary T Bassett (0000-0002-7810-4163, Sarah B. Perl is with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City, New York. Thomas G. Merrill is and Wilfredo Lopez was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York City Board of Health, New York. At the time of writing, Mary T. Bassett was with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the New York City Board of Health.)
Year2019
Volume109
Issue1
Pages92-95
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2018.304755
PMID30495990
OpenAlexW2902868171
LanguageEN
References cited4

We explore how a 1987 New York State court decision—Boreali v. Axelrod—affected public health rule-making nationally and, with considerable impact, locally in New York City (NYC). We discuss the history of the origin of the NYC Board of Health (BOH), and establish that legislatures can be challenging venues in which to enact public health–related laws. We describe how, as the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began to tackle modern public health problems (e.g., chronic diseases caused by food and tobacco), the regulatory power of its BOH was challenged. In an era when industry funds political causes and candidates, the weakening of the independence of rule-making boards of health, such as the NYC BOH, might result in illness and death

Environmental health · Health department · Home rule · Independence (probability theory) · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public health · Siege · State (computer science) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education · Gerontology

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