Health Impact Assessment

Concepts, Theory, Techniques and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-852629-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 682 g

Key Features:A comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of health impact assessment
- First integrated text on HIA
- Covers national and international case examples
- Practical orientation
- Shows how HIA can assist decision makers
Description:

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 areas of agreement and the questions remaining unanswered. It maps a confused field and signposts possible directions for future progress.
Health Impact Assessment 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 book will serve both as a reference for the established HIA practitioner and as an introduction for the novice.
Contents:

1. Preface
2. What is HIA? - introduction and overview
3. The development of HIA
4. Health inequalities and health impact assessment
5. Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology
6. The contribution of the social sciences to HIA
7. Quantitative approaches to health impact assessment
8. Evidence and HIA
9. The role of lay knowledge in HIA
10. Planning an HIA
11. HIA: a practitioners view
12. Rapid appraisal techniques
13. Lessons from environmental impact assessment
14. Community development: the role of health impact assessment
15. Health impact assessment at the international policy making level
16. HIA of policy in Canada
17. HIA and National Policy in the Netherlands
18. HIA in Scotland
19. Experience of HIA in Wales
20. HIA at the local level in Sweden
21. HIA in Australia
22. HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy
23. Using HIA in local government
24. HIA: the German perspective
25. Health Impact Assessment: Schiphol airport
26. The Finningley Airport Health Impact Assessment: A Case Study
27. HIA and urban regeneration: The Ferrier Estate, England
28. Impact assessment in Canada: an evolutionary process
29. HIA and waste disposal
30. Health impact assessment and fears of toxicity: health risk assessment of a control programme for the white-spotted tussock moth in New Zealand
31. The health impact assessment of crime prevention
32. Expanding the number of places for medical student training in England - an assessment of the impacts
33. HIA in developing countries
34. HIA of agricultural and food policies
35. HIA the national alcohol strategy for England
36. HIA in strategic environmental assessment and its application to policy in Europe
37. Future directions for HIA

Zielgruppe

Public health specialists, environmental impact assessors, policy analysts/political scientists, environmental health officers/town planners

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kemm, John

Palmer, Stephen

Parry, Jayne

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Umweltmedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN KEMM, Honorary Senior Lecturer, JAYNE PARRY, Director, both at the Health Impact Assessment Research Unit, University of Birmingham, UK, and STEPHEN PALMER, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Wales Medical School, Cardiff, South Wales