Health impact assessment: Necessary but not sufficient for healthy public policy

Public Health Reports

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-162

  Gottlieb, Laura M ^a   Fielding, Jonathan E ^a,b   Braveman, Paula A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Department of Public Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVALUATION; FINANCE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; POLICY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SCREENING; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84858183048     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491212700204     Document Type: Note

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