Improving health in the United States : the role of health impact assessment / Committee on Health Impact Assessment, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
"Many Americans believe that the United States has one of the best health-care systems in the world and that consequently Americans enjoy better health than most of the world's populations. The data, however, do not support that belief. In fact, the United States is ranked 32nd in the worl...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Improving health in the United States: the role of health impact assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Why we need health-informed policies and decision-making
- Elements of a health impact assessment
- Current issues and challenges in the development and practice of health impact assessment
- Structures and policies for promoting health impact assessment
- Structures and policies for promoting health impact assessment
- Experiences with health impact assessment
- Biographic information on the Committee on Health Impact Assessment
- Statement of task of the committee on health impact assessment
- Glossary
- Summary of health impact assessment guides
- Analysis of health effects under the National Environmental Policy Act.