Applying a health lens to decision making in non-health sectors

workshop summary [on a meeting of the Institute of Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement that was convened in September 2013].
Author(s)
Wizemann, T. (Rapp.)
Year
Abstract

The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, part of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Population has released a workshop summary on a meeting that was convened in September 2013 to foster cross-sectoral dialogue and consider the opportunities for and barriers to improving the conditions for health in the course of achieving other societal objectives (e.g., economic development, efficient public transit). Health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside of the health care delivery sector. These determinants of health include, for example, the characteristics of how people live, work, learn, and play. Decision and policy making in areas such as transportation, housing, and education at different levels of government, and in the private sector, can have far-reaching impacts on health. Throughout the United States there has been increasing dialogue on incorporating a health perspective into policies, programs, and projects outside the health field. (Author/publisher)

Publication

Library number
20140501 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Washington, D.C., National Academies Press (NAP), 2014, XIII + 60 p., 49 ref. - ISBN 978-0-309-29975-6

Publication (link)

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.