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Some of the main contributors to poor health in communities reside outside the health care delivery sector. For example, characteristics of the places we live, work, learn, and play influence our health. Therefore, decision-making in such areas as transportation, housing, and education at different levels of government, and in the private sector, warrants examination, research, dialogue, and action. This roundtable workshop focused on the cross-sectoral dialogue and action needed to support and inform thoughtful, evidence-based decisions that benefit health while achieving other important objectives (economic development, efficient public transit, and others).
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Workshop
·2014
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 e...
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Description
An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop featuring presentations and discussion of health in all policies approaches. Health in all policies refers to giving consideration for potential health effects in policy-making in many relevant domains, such as education, transportation, and housing. The committee will identify specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and other participants, and moderate the discussions.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Department of Health and Human Services
Private: Non Profit
Staff
Alina Baciu
Lead
