Multisectoral health policy. What’s right for the environment should also be right for human health: in the wake of the environmental impact assessment, a comparable approach for health – the health impact assessment (HIA) – is now growing in importance...
Editorial Ursula Ulrich. «Now’s not the time to be thinking of that – we’ve got to save money!» This was the answer I received from a health minister in the late 1990s when I asked whether the government had considered the effects that reducing the...
Example of a health impact assessment. A country’s agricultural policy has a direct effect on food production, the natural environment, the physical development of the countryside and public health. Agricultural policy is thus an important and rewarding subject for...
Evaluations. Two expert evaluations of Switzerland’s efforts to control the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic acknowledge the great commitment of those responsible while also identifying potential for improvement.
Promoting health. Providers and users of large-scale catering have responded positively overall to the quality standards published in December 2009 to encourage health-promoting community catering, but have nonetheless expressed some concerns.