Healthy public policy - is health impact assessment the cornerstone?

Public Health

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 296-301

  Metcalfe, O ^a   Higgins, C ^a  

^a Institute of Public Health in Ireland   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health impact assessment; Healthy public policy

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST OF ILLNESS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 64949122648     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.12.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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