Health Impact Assessment: a tool for Healthy Public Policy
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Health impact assessment: a tool for healthy public policy.
Healthy Public Policy is one of the key health promotion actions. Advancement of Healthy Public Policy requires that the health consequences of policy should be correctly foreseen and that the policy process should be influenced so that those health consequences are considered. Health Impact Assessment is an approach that could assist in meeting both requirements. Policies often produce health ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Promotion International
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2245
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/16.1.79