Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles
Title
There Ought to Be a Law?: Comparative Case Studies in the Role of Community Engagement and Policy Making Targeting HSV-1 Infection Following Ritualized Circumcision
ISBN or ISSN
2331-8945
Volume
4
Issue
2
Publication Date / Copyright Date
3-1-2016
First Page
97
Last Page
102
DOI Number
10.13189/ujph.2016.040208
Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts two different public health case studies in which public health authorities sought to address HSV-1 infection in Orthodox Jewish communities following ritualized circumcision. Using these cases, the author critiques the use of a governmental regulatory approach when public health authorities target a minority community for a practice which is not valued by the dominant political culture. Lastly, the author describes the benefits of community engagement in addressing such non-emergent public health concerns, particularly if the community involved is a religious minority one.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Turner, Akiva, "There Ought to Be a Law?: Comparative Case Studies in the Role of Community Engagement and Policy Making Targeting HSV-1 Infection Following Ritualized Circumcision" (2016). Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles. 152.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_hs_facarticles/152