The Case for “Environment in All Policies”: Lessons from the “Health in All Policies” Approach in Public Health

Conclusions: We encourage further exploration of the feasibility of EiAP as an approach that could make explicit the sometimes surprising environmental implications of a whole range of strategic policies.

Citation: Browne GR, Rutherfurd ID. 2017. The case for “environment in all policies”: lessons from the “health in all policies” approach in public health. Environ Health Perspect 125:149–154; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP294
Address correspondence to G.R. Browne, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. Level 5, 207 Bouverie St., Victoria 3010 Australia. E-mail: [e-mail]
Special thanks to M. Lowe from the McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit, P. Tait, Public Health Association Australia and C. Williams, SA Health (South Australian Department of Health), who provided valuable advice during the preparation of this paper. We also thank two anonymous reviewers whose insightful comments substantially improved this manuscript.
G.R.B. is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and scholarship support from the North-West Metro Region of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.
The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
Received: 9 November 2015
Revised: 6 April 2016
Accepted: 31 May 2016
Published: 28 June 2016
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Source: EHP Research - February 1, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Commentaries February 2017 Source Type: research