Utility-driven evidence for healthy cities: Problems with evidence generation and application

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1331-1341

  De Leeuw, Evelyne ^a,b   Skovgaard, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community health; Health policy; Health promotion; Healthy cities; Utility driven evidence; WHO

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH POLICY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CITY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 20444453162     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.028     Document Type: Article

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