Lauri Kokkinen
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland | Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Tampere, Finland.
[ 1 ] - “First, Do No Harm”: Have the Health Impacts of Government Bills on Tax Legislation Been Assessed in Finland?
As taxation is one of the key public policy domains influencing population health, and as there is a legal, strategic, and programmatic basis for health impact assessment (HIA) in Finland, we analyzed all 235 government bills on tax legislation over the years 2007–2014 to see whether the health impacts of the tax bills had been assessed. We found that health impacts had been assessed for 13 bil...
[ 2 ] - Ideas for Extending the Approach to Evaluating Health in All Policies in South Australia; Comment on “Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia”
Since 2008, the government of South Australia has been using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to achieve their strategic plan (South Australia Strategic Plan of 2004). In this commentary, we summarize some of the strengths and contributions of the innovative evaluation framework that was developed by an embedded team of academic researchers. To inform how the use of HiAP is evaluated mo...
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