نتایج جستجو برای: biodiversity impact assessment

تعداد نتایج: 1302554  

2014
Peter James Kate Ito Rachel F. Banay Jonathan J. Buonocore Benjamin Wood Mariana C. Arcaya

Decreasing traffic speeds increases the amount of time drivers have to react to road hazards, potentially averting collisions, and makes crashes that do happen less severe. Boston's regional planning agency, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH), conducted a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) that examined the potenti...

Journal: :The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association 2008
Comfort B Asanbe Charlene Hall Charles D Bolden

CONTEXT A growing number of children reside with methamphetamine-abusing parents in homes where the illicit drug is produced. Yet, the effects of a methamphetamine environment on psychological child outcome are still unknown. PURPOSE To examine whether preschoolers who lived in methamphetamine-producing homes are at increased risk for developing psychological problems. METHODS The participa...

2014
Helen Brown Jeffery Spickett Dianne Katscherian

This paper presents a detailed description of an approach designed to investigate the application of the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) framework to assess the potential health impacts of climate change. A HIA framework has been combined with key climate change terminology and concepts. The fundamental premise of this framework is an understanding of the interactions between people, the environ...

Journal: :Epidemiologia e prevenzione 2005
Barbara Langford

Health impact assessment (HIA) has its origins in environmental impact assessment methodology. New Zealand's approach to health impact assessment is consistent with other countries. During the 1990s, legislation that related to the management of natural and physical resources provided the basis for public health engagement in impact assessment. In the mid 1990s, the Public Health Commission rel...

2012
Patrick John Harris Lynn Amanda Kemp Peter Sainsbury

OBJECTIVES This study uses critical realist methodology to identify the essential and contingent elements of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Healthy Public Policy (HPP) as operationalised by practitioners. DESIGN Data collection-qualitative interviews and a workshop were conducted with HIA and HPP practitioners working in differing contexts. DATA ANALYSIS Critical realist analytical ques...

Journal: :Acta medica Okayama 2011
Sarunya Hengpraprom Pornchai Sithisarankul

The purpose of this research was to develop tools applicable to the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Thai context. The relevant documents and articles were extensively reviewed, analyzed, and drafted. The first draft was presented to a research advisory committee for their review, and the recommended changes were subsequently made. The second draft wa...

Journal: :Health promotion international 2009
Erica Ison

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been a strong and persistent voice calling for the recognition of the role of health in development and of the impact of socio-economic development on health. Health impact assessment (HIA) is one mechanism that can be used to achieve this goal. The objective of this paper is to describe HIA practice in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and present ...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2013
Mirko S Winkler Gary R Krieger Mark J Divall Guéladio Cissé Mark Wielga Burton H Singer Marcel Tanner Jürg Utzinger

The World Health Organization has promoted health impact assessment (HIA) for over 20 years. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), HIA was discussed as a critical method for linking health to "green economy" and "institutional framework" strategies for sustainable development. In countries having a high human development index (HDI), HIA has been added to th...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003
Karen Lock Mojca Gabrijelcic-Blenkus Marco Martuzzi Peter Otorepec Paul Wallace Carlos Dora Aileen Robertson Jozica Maucec Zakotnic

The most important public health priority in agricultural policy-making is currently food safety, despite the relatively higher importance of food security, nutrition, and other agricultural-related health issues in terms of global burden of disease. There is limited experience worldwide of using health impact assessment (HIA) during the development of agriculture and food policies, which perha...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
mirko s. winkler jürg utzinger

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 ...

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