Health Impact Assessment Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress

by Kemm, John

• ISBN13: 9780199656011
• ISBN10: 0199656010
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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. Health Impact Assessment:Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progressexplores the past development of HIA, its current practice and possible future. Written in two parts, the first section by John Kemm provides an overview describing the various ways in which an HIA can be done. Highly 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 written by authors practising HIA from different countries throughout the world, demonstrating the various pressures and legislative frameworks that have shaped the evolution of HIA. Illustrating the range of views about the reasons for doing HIA and how it should be done, and revealing how the practice of HIA has been adapted to suit different cultures and help decision making in varying situations.

Table of Contents

Part 1 John Kemm
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
12. Devolution, evolution and expectation: Health Impact Assessment in Wales, Eva Elliott, Gareth Williams, Chloe Chadderton and Liz Green
13. Health Impact Assessment in Scotland, Margaret Douglas and Martin Higgins
14. Health Impact Assessment in the Island of Ireland, Owen Metcalfe, Teresa Laverty and Clair Higgins
15. Health Impact Assessment in Netherlands, Lea den Broeder and Brigit Staatsen
16. Health Impact Assessment in Spain, Elena Aldosoro, Artundo Carlos and Ana Rivadeneyra
17. Health Impact Assessment in Germany, Rainer Fehr and Odile Mekel
18. Health Impact Assessment in Denmark, Marie Louise Bistrup and Henrik Bronnum-Hansen
19. Health Impact Assessment in Switzerland, Jean Simos and Nicola Cantoreggi
20. Health Impact Assessment in France, Jean Simos and Nicolas Prisse
21. Health Impact Assessment in Italy, Liliana Cori and Fabrizio Bianchi
22. Health Impact Assessment in new member states and accession countries of EU, Gabriel Gulis
23. Health Impact Assessment in United States, Andrew Dannenberg and Aaron Wernham
24. Health Impact Assessment in Canada, Louise St-Pierre and Anika Mendell
25. Health Impact Assessment in Australia, Ben Harris-Roxas, Patrick Harris, Marilyn Wise, Fiona Haigh, Harrison Ng Chok and Elizabeth Harris
26. Development of Health Impact Assessment in Thailand, Siriwan Chandanachulaka
27. Health Impact Assessment in Japan, Yoshihisa Fujino
28. Health Impact Assessment in Korea, Eunjeong Kang
29. Health Impact Assessment in developing countries, Gary Krieger, Burton Singer, Mirko Winkler, Mark Divall and Marcel Tanner
30. Health Impact Assessment in Ghana, Kwaku Poko Asante and Seth Owusu-Agyei
31. A perspective on Health Impact Assessment, global health and the role of WHO, Carlos Dora