Health Impact Assessment Concepts, Theory, Techniques and Applications

by Kemm, John; Parry, Jayne; Palmer, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780198526292
• ISBN10: 0198526296
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Health effects are often overlooked when planning development projects ranging from new runways at major airport sites to developing water supply systems to improve sanitation. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is the assessment of the health effects, positive or negative, of a project,programme, or policy. It is therefore concerned with the health of populations and attempts to predict the future consequences for health of decisions which have not yet been implemented. HIA is a new and growing field with numerous schools of thought and areas of controversy. This book is the first to give a comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of HIA to aid all those preparing projects or carrying out assessments. It draws on examples and thinking from many different disciplines and many parts of the world. It identifies the areasof agreement and the questions remaining unanswered. It maps a confused field and signposts possible directions for future progress. HIA is intended to help decision makers in all areas foresee the consequences of their decisions, to ensure the consequences are considered and reduce the risk of population health being damaged through some indirect and unintended consequence of a decision. This book is a practical handbook for those preparing the assessments be they epidemiologists, environmentalists, health economists or public health specialists as well as serving as a conceptual guide for policy makers, decision makers and planners at national and international level. This bookwill serve both as a reference for the established HIA practitioner and as an introduction for the novice.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xi
Contributors	xiii
What is HIA? Introduction and overview	1	(14)
John Kemm
Jayne Parry
The development of HIA	15	(10)
John Kemm
Jayne Parry
Health inequalities and HIA	25	(14)
Johan P Mackenbach
J Lennert Veerman
Jan JM Barendregt
Anton E Kunst
Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology	39	(14)
Stephen Palmer
The contribution of the social sciences to HIA	53	(8)
Juhani Lehto
Quantitative approaches to HIA	61	(10)
Mark McCarthy
Martin Utley
Evidence and HIA	71	(10)
Mark Petticrew
Sally Macintyre
Hilary Thomson
The role of lay knowledge in HIA	81	(10)
Eva Elliott
Gareth Williams
Ben Rolfe
Planning an HIA	91	(12)
Jennifer Mindell
Mike Joffe
Erica Ison
HIA: a practitioner's view	103	(12)
Kate Ardern
Rapid appraisal techniques	115	(16)
Erica Ison
Lessons from EIA	131	(12)
Alan Bond
Community development: the role of HIA	143	(10)
Maurice B Mittelmark
Doris E Gillis
Bridget Hsu-Hage
HIA at the international policy-making level	153	(12)
Anna Ritsatakis
HIA of policy in Canada	165	(12)
Reiner Banken
HIA and national policy in the Netherlands	177	(14)
Ernst W. Roscam Abbing
HIA in Scotland	191	(10)
Margaret Douglas
Jill Muirie
The experience of HIA in Wales	201	(12)
Ceri Breeze
HIA at the local level in Sweden	213	(10)
Karin Berensson
HIA in Australia	223	(12)
John SF Wright
HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy	235	(8)
Caron Bowen
Using HIA in local government	243	(10)
Susan J Milner
HIA: the German perspective	253	(12)
Rainer Fehr
Odile Mekel
Rudolf Welteke
HIA in Schiphol Airport	265	(20)
Brigit AM Staatsen
Ellis AM Franssen
Carla MAG van Wiechen
Danny Houthuijs
Erik Lebret
The Finningley Airport HIA: a case study	285	(14)
Muna I Abdel Aziz
John Radford
John McCabe
HIA and urban regeneration: the Ferrier estate, England	299	(10)
Ruth Barnes
Impact Assessment in Canada: an evolutionary process	309	(8)
Roy E Kwiatkowski
HIA and waste disposal	317	(12)
Ian Matthews
HIA and fears of toxicity: health risk assessment of a control programme for the white-spotted tussock moth in New Zealand	329	(12)
Donald M Campbell
The HIA of crime prevention	341	(10)
Alex Hirschfield
Expanding the number of places for medical student training in England: an assessment of the impacts	351	(12)
Jonathan Mathers
Jayne Parry
HIA in developing countries	363	(12)
Martin Birley
HIA of agricultural and food policies	375	(14)
Karen Lock
Mojca Gabrijelcic-Blenkus
HIA and the National Alcohol Strategy for England	389	(14)
John Kemm
HIA in SEA and its application to policy in Europe	403	(8)
Carlos Dora
Future directions for HIA	411	(8)
Jayne Parry
John Kemm
Index	419