Introducing Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Switzerland

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 130-132

  Simos, Jean ^a  

^a DASS Direction Générale de la Santé   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CITY PLANNING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONITORING; PASSIVE SMOKING; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING TEST; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SWITZERLAND;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FORECASTING; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33746388846     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-006-0029-9     Document Type: Editorial

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6. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (2003) Protocol on strategic environmental assessment to the convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context. Geneva: UNECE. http://www.unece.org/env/eia/documents/protocolenglish.pdf.