Health Impact Assessment is an useful mix of procedures, tools and methods for the assessment health issues due development new plans, programs projects. Heath well stablished in homologous countries decision making processes more than two decades. Nevertheless, Spain actual situation far from international standards. In this review, a revision relationships between environment has been carried...

Background: As a primary phase of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the Iranian Targeted Subsidy Plan (TSP), this study was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of a newly developed quantitative Health Policy Impact Assessment Tool (HEPIAT).    Methods: In 2014, multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 509 key informants in Sanandaj, Iran, to participate in th...

a r t i c l e i n f o How can planners more systematically incorporate health concerns into practical planning processes? This paper describes a suite of health impact assessment tools (HIAs) developed specifically for planning practice. Taking an evidence-based approach the tools are designed to fit into existing planning activities. The tools include: a short audit tool, the Preliminary Check...

The underlying goal of disaster aftercare is to contribute to the restoration of control at both individual and societal level. A disaster HIA may contribute to a pro-active government response by providing information on the needs of the victims and, consequently, on the relief facilities required to support individual and collective post-disaster care activities. It may also serve to recogniz...

• ensuring that government health policies improve the position of disadvantaged people; • assessing the differential impact of health policies across the whole population; • identifying potential impacts of health policies on specific groups within a population. Despite there being no agreement on the significance of this process—and the process still needs to be evaluated— HIA is being extens...

The purpose of this paper was to prove that the standards for environmental friendliness set out by international law require states carry Health Impact Assessment (HIA) before implementation public or private investments having a potential human health impact even if national legal systems do not it. analysis both soft and treaty law, as well case-law courts tribunals show Environmental (EIA) ...

BACKGROUND The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations' (TNCs) practices have become central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national economies. Despite this, methodologies have been lacking with which to study the health equity impacts of individual corporations and thus to inform actions to mitigate or reverse ...

OBJECTIVES To document the growing use in the United States of health impact assessment (HIA) methods to help planners and others consider the health consequences of their decisions. METHODS Using multiple search strategies, 27 HIAs were identified that were completed in the U.S. during 1999-2007. Key characteristics of each HIA were abstracted from published and unpublished sources. RESULT...

Health impact assessments (HIAs) across the globe may be used by governments and industries to secure approval for unconventional gas extraction developments. HIA is an umbrella term that covers an array of health review and assessment practices, ranging from the very general to quite specific and technical health studies. Our concern in this paper is principally with the specialist end of the ...

INTRODUCTION The Center for Community Health and Evaluation conducted a 3-year evaluation to assess results of health impact assessments (HIAs) in the United States and to identify elements critical for their success. METHODS The study used a retrospective, mixed-methods comparative case study design, including a literature review; site visits; interviews with investigators, stakeholders, and...