Ashe Marice, Jernigan David, Kline Randolph, Galaz Rhonda
Technical Assistance Legal Center, Public Health Institute, 505 14th Street, Suite 810, Oakland, CA 94612, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2003 Sep;93(9):1404-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.9.1404.
We desired to understand how legal tools protect public health by regulating the location and density of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and fast food retail outlets. We reviewed the literature to determine how land use regulations can function as control tools for public health advocates. We found that land use regulations are a public health advocacy tool that has been successfully used to lessen the negative effects of alcohol retail outlets in neighborhoods. More research is needed to determine whether such regulations are successful in reducing the negative effects of other retail outlets on community health.
我们希望了解法律工具如何通过规范酒精、烟草、枪支和快餐零售店的位置及密度来保护公众健康。我们查阅了文献,以确定土地使用法规如何能作为公共卫生倡导者的控制工具。我们发现,土地使用法规是一种公共卫生倡导工具,已成功用于减轻社区中酒精零售店的负面影响。需要更多研究来确定此类法规是否能成功减少其他零售店对社区健康的负面影响。