Health Impact Assessment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 April 2004
- ISBN 9780198526292
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages452 pages
- Size 234x157x25 mm
- Weight 704 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of Health Impact Assessment 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. This is the first easily accessible book, which reviews the whole field. It is likely to become the standard reference for HIA and the first place that anyone seeking to learn about the subject will turn.
MoreLong 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.
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 book will serve both as a reference for the established HIA practitioner and as an introduction for the novice.
I would say that this state-of-the-art book has been successful in presenting all issues currently under discussion or agreed on in the field HIA. It also provides us with practical examples. As such, it is a "must" for anyone interested in HIA. Yet, I feel this book's most valuable contribution to the field is the stimulus it provides to do some further thinking on HIA and the future in store for it.
Table of Contents:
Preface
What is HIA? Introduction and overview
The development of HIA
Health inequalities and HIA
Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology
The contribution of the social sciences to HIA
Quantitative approaches to HIA
Evidence and HIA
The role of lay knowledge in HIA
Planning an HIA
HIA: a practitioners view
Rapid appraisal techniques
Lessons from EIA
Community development: the role of HIA
HIA at the international policy making level
HIA of policy in Canada
HIA and national policy in the Netherlands
HIA in Scotland
The experience of HIA in Wales
HIA at the local level in Sweden
HIA in Australia
HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy
Using HIA in local government
HIA: the German perspective
HIA in Schiphol airport
The Finningley Airport HIA: A Case Study
HIA and urban regeneration: the Ferrier Estate, England
Impact assessment in Canada: an evolutionary process
HIA and waste disposal
HIA and fears of toxicity: health risk assessment of a control programme for the white-spotted tussock moth in New Zealand
The HIA of crime prevention
Expanding the number of places for medical student training in England: an assessment of the impacts
HIA in developing countries
HIA of agricultural and food policies
HIA and the National Alcohol Strategy for England
HIA in SEA and its application to policy in Europe
Future directions for HIA
