Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation—A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors
Drawing on a growing methods literature in legal epidemiology, this Viewpoint describes difficulties of quantifying health impacts of legal policies and outlines some steps that are key to creating scientifically credible legal data.
Authors
- Benjamin A. Barsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5058-4428)
- Alina Schnake‐Mahl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4939-1554)
- Scott Burris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6013-5842)
- Cason Schmit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7929-7198)
Institutions
- Harvard University Press (US)
- Drexel University (US)
- Temple University (US)
- Texas A&M University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Health Forum
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.0067
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 15.66