Health impact assessment : past achievement, current understanding, and future progress / edited by John Kemm ; Elena Aldosoro [and forty-six others] ; contirbutors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemm, John.

Contributor:

Kemm, J. R.

Aldosoro, Elena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health risk assessment.

Medical policy.

World health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes the past development of Health Impact Assessment (HIA), its current practice and possible future. It provides an overview of HIA methods and addresses the controversies that are impacting the evolution of HIA, through the experiences of the author and other HIA practitioners around the world.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part 1 Introducing HIA; 1 Origins and outline of health impact assessment; 2 Screening and scoping; 3 Quantitative assessment; 4 Qualitative assessment: lay and civic knowledge; 5 Recommendations and reports; 6 Values and ethics of health impact assessment; 7 Evaluation and quality assurance of health impact assessment; 8 Health impact assessment of policy; 9 Health in other impact assessments; 10 Application of health impact assessment to various topics; 11 Making health impact assessment happen; Part 2 HIA across the world

12 Devolution, evolution, and expectation: health impact assessment in Wales13 Health impact assessment in Scotland; 14 Health impact assessment in the island of Ireland; 15 Development of health impact assessment in the Netherlands; 16 Health impact assessment in Spain; 17 Health impact assessment in Germany; 18 Health impact assessment in Denmark; 19 Health impact assessment in Switzerland; 20 Health impact assessment in France; 21 Health impact assessment in Italy; 22 Health impact assessment in new member states and pre-accession countries of the EU; 23 Health impact assessment in the USA

24 Health impact assessment in Canada25 Health impact assessment in Australia; 26 Health impact assessment in Thailand; 27 Health impact assessment in Japan; 28 Health impact assessment in Korea; 29 Health impact assessment in developing countries; 30 Health impact assessment in Ghana; 31 A perspective on health impact assessment, global health, and the role of the WHO; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-162950-2

0-19-965601-0

OCLC:

922972879