Legal Innovations to Advance a Culture of Health.

As conceptualized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and its partners, a culture of health centers on a society in which health flourishes across all populations and sectors. Law, among other tools, is critical to advancing a culture of health across multiple arenas. In this manuscript, Network for Public Health Law colleagues illustrate how legal innovations at all levels of government contribute to societal health. Examples include modern laws that promote healthy and safe low-income housing, telemedicine reimbursement, paid sick and safe time, healthy food and beverages, reduced smoking rates, child vaccinations, universal pre-k, adolescents' healthy sleep, overdose prevention, and medical-legal partnerships.

Major trends in public health law and practice: a network national report.

Since its inception in September 2010, the Network for Public Health Law has responded to hundreds of public health legal technical assistance claims from around the country. Based on a review of these data, a series of major trends in public health practice and the law are analyzed, including issues concerning: the Affordable Care Act, tobacco control, emergency legal preparedness, health information privacy, food policy, vaccination, drug overdose prevention, sports injury law, public health accreditation, and maternal breastfeeding. These and other emerging themes in public health law demonstrate the essential role of law and practice in advancing the public's health.

Fixation of the offset V osteotomy: mechanical testing of 4 constructs.

The purpose of this study was to assess 4 methods of fixation for the offset V osteotomy. Maximum load, failure energy, and stiffness were determined in a control group and in 4 different test models. There were 10 specimens for each group. The control group consisted of intact first ray sawbones. An offset V osteotomy was performed on each specimen in each of the 4 test groups. The osteotomies were fixated either with two 2.0-mm cortical screws, two 2.7-mm cortical screws, two 3.5-mm cortical screws, or one 2.7-mm cortical screw and a 0.045-in Kirschner wire, respectively. Each model was then loaded to failure with a computerized hydraulic-tensile testing machine. Results for maximum load to failure for all 4 fixation constructs showed a mean ranging from 113.0 to 144.0 N, a mean energy to failure ranging from 272.2 to 365.0 J, and a mean stiffness ranging from 21.3 to 27.0 N/mm. There were no statistically significant differences detected among the individual constructs. In the group fixated with 3.5-mm screws, there were statistically significant differences in all 3 parameters compared with the control group. In the groups fixated with 2.7-mm screws, 2.0-mm screws, and the 2.7-mm screw and Kirschner wire, there were statistically significant differences in the maximum load and the failure energy, but not in stiffness, when compared with the control group. These findings suggest that all 4 constructs provide similar mechanical properties when utilized for the fixation of the offset V osteotomy.