New Approaches for Moving Upstream: How State and Local Health Departments Can Transform Practice to Reduce Health Inequalities

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-56

  Freudenberg, Nicholas ^a   Franzosa, Emily ^a   Chisholm, Janice ^a   Libman, Kimberly ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; health policy; health promotion; social determinants; social inequalities

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COOPERATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926283668     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198114568304     Document Type: Article

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