Health impact assessment: principles and practice

The Search for Underlying Principles of Health Impact Assessment: Progress and Prospects; Comment on “Investigating Underlying Principles to Guide Health Impact Assessment”

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a relatively young field of endeavour, and hence, future progress will depend on the planning, implementation and rigorous evaluation of additional HIAs of projects, programmes and policies the world over. In the June 2014 issue of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Fakhri and colleagues investigated underlying principles of HIA through ...

Investigating Underlying Principles to Guide Health Impact Assessment

Background Many countries conduct Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of their projects and policies to predict their positive and negative health impacts. In recent years many guides have been developed to inform HIA practice, largely reflecting local developments in HIA. These guides have often been designed for specific contexts and specific need, making the choice between guides difficult. The o...

Health impact assessment--theory into practice.

the search for underlying principles of health impact assessment: progress and prospects; comment on “investigating underlying principles to guide health impact assessment”

health impact assessment (hia) is a relatively young field of endeavour, and hence, future progress will depend on the planning, implementation and rigorous evaluation of additional hias of projects, programmes and policies the world over. in the june 2014 issue of the international journal of health policy and management, fakhri and colleagues investigated underlying principles of hia through ...

investigating underlying principles to guide health impact assessment

background many countries conduct health impact assessment (hia) of their projects and policies to predict their positive and negative health impacts. in recent years many guides have been developed to inform hia practice, largely reflecting local developments in hia. these guides have often been designed for specific contexts and specific need, making the choice between guides difficult. the o...