Health impact assessment : past achievement, current understanding, and future progress / edited by John Kemm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemm, J. R.

Oxford Scholarship Online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health risk assessment.

Environmental impact analysis.

Medical policy.

Environmental health.

Health Impact Assessment.

Public Health.

Risk Assessment--trends.

Program Evaluation--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Health Impact Assessment.

Public Health.

Risk Assessment--trends.

Program Evaluation--methods.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process which helps decision making by predicting the consequences for health of choosing different options in terms of policies, plans, and projects. There is growing interest among health professionals, planners, and politicians in using HIA to help safeguard and improve the health of populations and reduce health inequalities. This book explores the past development of HIA, its current practice, and possible future. Written in two parts, the first section provides an overview describing the various ways in which an HIA can be done. Practical in emphasis, it describes how HIA can be applied in different contexts to meet the needs of different decision makers and answer a variety of questions. It deals not only with the many good reasons for using HIA but also critically examines the weaknesses of current practice. The second part consists of chapters demonstrating the various pressures and legislative frameworks that have shaped the evolution of HIA. The aim is to illustrate the range of views about the reasons for doing HIA and how it should be done, and to reveal how the practice of HIA has been adapted to suit different cultures and help decision making in varying situations.

Contents:

Introducing HIA / John Kemm

HIA across the world. Devolution, evolution, and expectation : health impact assessment in Wales / Eva Elliott [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Scotland / Margaret Douglas and Martin Higgins ; Health impact assessment in the island of Ireland / Owen Metcalfe, Claire Higgins, and Teresa Lavin ; Development of health impact assessment in the Netherlands / Lea den Broeder and Brigit Staatsen ; Health impact assessment in Spain / Elena Aldosoro, Carlos Artundo, and Ana Rivadeneyra ; Health impact assessment in Germany / Rainer Fehr and Odile Mekel; Health impact assessment in Denmark / Marie Louise Bistrup and Henrik Brønnum-Hansen ; Health impact assessment in Switzerland / Jean Simos and Nicola Cantoreggi ; Health impact assessment in France / Jean Simos and Nicolas Prisse ; Health impact assessment in Italy / Fabrizio Bianchi and Liliana Cori ; Health impact assessment in new member states and pre-accession countries of the EU / Gabriel Gulis ; Health impact assessment in the USA / Andrew Dannenberg and Aaron Wernham ; Health impact assessment in Canada / Louise St-Pierre and Anika Mendell ; Health impact assessment in Australia / Ben Harris-Roxas [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Thailand / Siriwan Chandanachulaka ; Health impact assessment in Japan / Yoshihisa Fujino ; Health impact assessment in Korea / Eunjeong Kang ; Health impact assessment in developing countries / Gary Krieger [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Ghana / Kwaku Poko Asante and Seth Owusu-Agyei ; A perspective on health impact assesment, global health and the role of the WHO / Carlos Dora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Health impact assessment.

ISBN:

0191748021

9780191748028

9780191629501

0191629502

OCLC:

827777845

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.