Healthy settings: Challenges to generating evidence of effectiveness

Health Promotion International

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-65

  Dooris, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecology; Evaluation; Evidence; Organization development; Settings; Systems

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ECOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EVALUATION STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 33344468631     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dai030     Document Type: Review

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