Rapid health impact appraisal of eviction versus a housing project in a colony-dwelling Roma community

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 960-965

  Kósa, Karolina ^a   Molnár, Ágnes ^a   McKee, Martin ^b   Ádány, Róza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HOUSING PROJECT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CHILD; GYPSIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HUNGARY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN RENEWAL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 35648936596     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.057158     Document Type: Article

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