Roles of Individual Choice and Regulation in Public Health Debates Target of Northeastern University Event

“Conflicts between individual choice and collective action underlie
many of the most contested and challenging debates relating to health
and health care, from the very existence of Obamacare to government
responses to the obesity and tobacco epidemics,” according to promotional
materials for an April 15, 2016, conference on the campus of
Northeastern University in Boston.

The event will include sessions titled “The Politics of Public Health”;
“Commercial Speech, Individual Responsibility & Health”; and “Addiction.”
The “Obesity and Chronic Diseases” roundtable will be moderated
by Northeastern Law Professor Richard Daynard, founder of the Public
Health Advocacy Institute’s Center for Public Health Litigation, which
“uses the civil justice system to improve public health by focusing on
litigation targeting tobacco industry products, unhealthy foods, deceptive
health marketing, and deceptive gambling practices.”

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