Current Global Health Impact Assessment Practice

EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Quantitative health impact assessment: current practice and future directions

Study objective: To assess what methods are used in quantitative health impact assessment (HIA), and to identify areas for future research and development. Design: HIA reports were assessed for (1) methods used to quantify effects of policy on determinants of health (exposure impact assessment) and (2) methods used to quantify health outcomes resulting from changes in exposure to determinants (...

Health impact assessment--theory into practice.

Current practice in health promotion.

Progress in health promotion and preventive programme planning is limited by a lack of data on the development of current activities. A cross sectional survey of hospitals, community health centres, and other health agencies in New South Wales was therefore undertaken to determine the nature and extent of health promotion programmes being conducted in the period July to December 1983. A subsamp...

global warming and its health impact

since the mid-19 th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. the effects of rising temperature include soil degradation, loss of productivity of agricultural land, desertification, loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems, reduced fresh-water resou...

Health impact assessment.

Correspondence to: Dr M Joffe, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PF, UK; [email protected] _________________________ A person’s health status is largely determined by factors outside the control of the healthcare sector. While some of these are fixed, such as inheritance, many are environmental in the broadest s...