INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coal exploitation technology could have affected the deformation of ground under a housing estate in the Upper Silesia agglomeration. The 10-storey apartment building began to deviate from the vertical. These factors affected the housing conditions of inhabitants in the block of flats. From 1991-2001, coal-mine surveyors monitored the vertical deviation. The inhabita...

Worldwide there is a tendency towards deregulation in many policy sectors - this, for example, includes liberalization and privatization of drinking-water management. However, concerns about the negative impacts this might have on human health call for prospective health impact assessment (HIA) on the management of drinking-water. On the basis of an established generic 10-step HIA procedure and...

We examined whether specific input data and assumptions explain outcome differences in otherwise comparable health impact assessment models. Seven population health models estimating the impact of salt reduction on morbidity and mortality in western populations were compared on four sets of key features, their underlying assumptions and input data. Next, assumptions and input data were varied o...

There are few academic institutions in the United States currently offering courses on Health Impact Assessment (HIA). This commentary describes a PhD student’s experience building receptive audience for an HIA course within Urban Planning and Policy program at University of Illinois Chicago, how they went about developing course, details its implementation. Key lessons learned from implementin...

BACKGROUND Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged to identify those activities and policies likely to have major impacts on the health of a population. METHOD In this research, qualitative method was applied to identifying health determinants that urban man made lake affect on them, formatting and weighing the hierarchy of the factors, calculating AHP, and Technique for Order Preference b...

BACKGROUND An important health issue in urban areas is how changes arising from the regeneration of city-areas affect social determinants of health and equity. This paper examines the impacts attributable to a new fish market and to delays in the regeneration of a port area in a deteriorated region of the Bay of Pasaia (Spain). Potential differential impacts on local residents and socially vuln...

BACKGROUND Health impact assessment has been identified internationally as a mechanism to ensure potential health impacts and health equity impacts of proposals are considered before implementation. This paper looks at the impact of three equity focused health impact assessments (EFHIAs) of health service plans on subsequent decision-making and implementation, and then utilises these findings t...

background :traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. this paper is a report on a preliminary section of a health impact assessment (hia) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in sanandaj, iran. in this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of urban traffic rel...

Whereas assessing health is a mandatory feature of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) in Sweden, impacts are often vaguely described, making their preventive role meaningless. In 2006, mine was planned the reindeer grazing lands Sámi community northern Sweden. While an EIA conducted 2013, superficially addressed. The aim this study to describe and reflect on assessment (HIA) process that a...

introduction: air pollution due to particulate matter is a major environmental and health issue in all regions of the world. the aim of this study was to investigate the health impacts of pm10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤10μm) in khorramabad city, iran in 2014. materials and methods: in this study, pm10 sampling was conducted by a high-volume sampler at flow rate of 1.1-1....