Facilitating communities in designing and using their own community health impact assessment tool

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-437

  Cameron, Colleen ^a   Ghosh, Sebanti ^b   Eaton, Susan L ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Association for Social and Health Advancement (ASHA)   (India)

^c People Assessing Their Health (PATH) Network   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Community development; Community health impact assessment; Determinants of health; Health promotion; Healthy public policy; Public engagement

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT;

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC POLICY; RATING;

HEALTH;

COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CANADA; INDIA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 79955715056     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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