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Developing principles for health impact assessment

Author(s) -

M. Joanne Douglas,

L Conway,

Dermot Gorman,

Smith Gavin,

P. Hanlon

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/23.2.148

Subject(s) - disadvantaged , health impact assessment , blueprint , public health , business , stigma (botany) , environmental health , social determinants of health , population , overcrowding , mental health , environmental planning , political science , public economics , medicine , economic growth , geography , engineering , economics , nursing , mechanical engineering , psychiatry

Policies and practice in many sectors affect health. Health impact assessment (HIA) is a way to predict these health impacts, in order to recommend improvements in policies to improve health. There has been debate about appropriate methods for this work. The Scottish Executive funded the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme to conduct two pilot HIAs and from these to develop guidance on HIA.

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