Citation

Merrill-Francis M, Vernick JS, Porter KMP. J. Law Med. Ethics 2019; 47(2): 283-291.

Affiliation

Molly Merrill-Francis, M.P.H., is a current Health Policy and Management Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. She received an M.P.H. in Health Behavior from University of North Carolina Gilling's School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, NC. Jon S. Vernick, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prof. Vernick is the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public's Health and Director of Training and Education for the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. He is also affiliated with the Eastern Region of the Network for Public Health Law. Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Pollack Porter is Director of the School's Institute for Health and Social Policy and Director of the Research Core for the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1177/1073110519857283

PMID

31298090

Abstract

Bicycle helmets protect against head injury. Mandatory helmet laws likely increase their use. Although 21 states and Washington, DC have mandatory helmet laws for youth (variously defined) bicyclists, no U.S. state has a mandatory helmet law that applies to all ages; however, some localities have all-age helmet laws for bicyclists. This study abstracted local helmet laws applicable to all-ages to examine their elements.

Language: en