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A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

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Health In All Policies (HiAP) has been explicitly defined as a collaborative approach used internationally to address multifactorial health and social inequalities, etc. It is complementary to the more commonly known approaches of public health and health care services and it is essential in enhancing evidence-informed policy making by clarifying for decision makers the links between policies and interventions, health determinants, and the consequent health outcomes.

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  1. Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, L.go F. Vito 1, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Agnese Lazzari & Chiara de Waure

  2. Department of Health Services Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat

  3. Department of International Health, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat

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  2. Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Paolo Villari

  3. Institute of Hygiene,Faculty of Medicine Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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Lazzari, A., de Waure, C., Azzopardi-Muscat, N. (2015). Health in All Policies. In: Boccia, S., Villari, P., Ricciardi, W. (eds) A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13620-2_16

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