Health impact assessment of agriculture and food policies: Lessons learnt from the Republic of Slovenia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 391-398

  Lock, Karen ^a   Gabrijelcic Blenkus, Mojca ^b   Martuzzi, Marco ^c   Otorepec, Peter ^b   Wallace, Paul ^d   Dora, Carlos ^e   Robertson, Aileen ^f   Zakotnic, Jozica Maucec ^g  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^c WHO European Centre for Environment and Health   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^g Ministry of Defence   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Agriculture legislation; Environmental health; Food supply legislation; Health status indicators; Models, Theoretical; Nutrition policy legislation; Policy making; Program evaluation; Public health; Public policy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; FOOD POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT; POLICY ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; NUTRITION; REVIEW; SLOVENIA;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUTRITION POLICY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOVENIA;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 0038112022     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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