Health Impact Assessment: A Tool to Help Policy Makers Understand Health Beyond Health Care

Health impact assessment: a tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care.

Health impact assessment (HIA)--a combination of methods to examine formally the potential health effects of a proposed policy, program, or project--has received considerable interest over the past decade internationally as a practical mechanism for collaborating with other sectors to address the environmental determinants of health and to achieve more effectively the goals of population health...

Health impact assessment: a tool for healthy public policy.

Healthy Public Policy is one of the key health promotion actions. Advancement of Healthy Public Policy requires that the health consequences of policy should be correctly foreseen and that the policy process should be influenced so that those health consequences are considered. Health Impact Assessment is an approach that could assist in meeting both requirements. Policies often produce health ...

Health Impact Assessment--and beyond.

National and international pressure is growing for public policies and programmes to be prospectively evaluated to determine what their impacts will be on public health. This is evident from statements from bodies including the WHO, 1 the European Union, 2 and the British Medical Association 3 and may be seen as a natural development of evidence-based principles that are currently being applied...

Measuring equity in household\'s health care payments (Tehran- Iran 2013): technical points for health policy decision makers

Background: Households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. This study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (FFC) and Kakwani indices in Tehran-Iran, 2013. Methods: This cross-sectional study was c...

Health care policy makers, we have a problem.