Health impact assessment: Assessing opportunities and barriers to intersectoral health improvement in an expanded European Union

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 356-360

  Lock, Karen ^a   McKee, Martin ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH IMPACT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGRICULTURE; CASE STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAW; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17644422833     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.024026     Document Type: Review

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