David Sackett's Unintended Impacts on Health Policy

Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy.

Submitted by dallison on Tue, 10/08/2013 9:34am Title Unintended consequences of obesity-targeted health policy. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2013 Authors Brown, AW, Allison, DB Journal Virtual Mentor Volume 15 Issue 4 Pagination 339-46 Date Published 2013 ISSN 1937-7010

Assessing the unintended health impacts of road transport policies and interventions: translating research evidence for use in policy and practice

BACKGROUND Transport and its links to health and health inequalities suggest that it is important to assess both the direct and unintended indirect health and related impacts of transport initiatives and policies. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides a framework to assess the possible health impacts of interventions such as transport. Policymakers and practitioners need access to well conduc...

Health and Climate Policy Impacts on Sulfur Emission Control

[1] Sulfate aerosol from burning fossil fuels not only has strong cooling effects on the Earth’s climate but also imposes substantial costs on human health. To assess the impact of addressing air pollution on climate policy, we incorporate both the climate and health effects of sulfate aerosol into an integrated-assessment model of fossil fuel emission control. Our simulations show that a polic...

David Oliver: Binary truths don't help health policy debate.

Stephen Hawking and Jeremy Hunt’s public argument in August over the future of the NHS and use of data led to some hard hitting claims and strong accusations on both sides. 2 In the aftermath of the spat the management consultant Stephen Black wrote a provocative piece on the current state of debate about the NHS. Black’s thesis was that we can’t move forward with constructive solutions to the ...

“The Unintended Impacts of Sentencing Guidelines on Family Structure”