Health impact assessment: A tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue , 2007, Pages 393-412

  Cole, Brian L ^a   Fielding, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Determinants of health; Policy making; Public policy; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34249739584     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.28.083006.131942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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