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Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Restoring and Improving Public Health Practice, Accountability, and Trust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Colleen Healy Boufides ,
Lance Gable  and
Peter D. Jacobson
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Abstract

The Flint water crisis demonstrates the importance of adequate legal preparedness in dealing with complicated legal arrangements and multiple statutory responsibilities. It also demonstrates the need for alternative accountability measures when public officials fail to protect the public's health and explores mechanisms for restoring community trust in governmental public health.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 47 , Issue S2: 2018 Public Health Law Conference: Health Justice: Empowering Public Health and Advancing Health Equity , Summer 2019 , pp. 23 - 26
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2019

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