A health map for the local human habitat

At the 2006 UK Public Health Association Conference, held in Telford in March, and the International HIA conference in Cardiff in the same month, there was much interest in a new model of health determinants applied to the planning of human settlements. This ‘health map’ is presented here in its current form for the first time. The authors explain its purpose.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Journal of the Royal Society of Health

• Publication date

  2006-11-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/1466424006070466PMID 17152313
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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