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 rela...

  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 r...

Evidence of the adverse health effects attributable to second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure is available. This study aims to quantify the impact of SHS exposure on ischaemic heart diseases (IHD), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), and stroke in Germany. Therefore, this study estimated and forecasted the morbidity for the three outcomes in the German population. Furthermore, a health imp...

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UNLABELLED This article provides examples of adverse health effects, including weather-related injury, food insecurity, mental health issues, and water infrastructure damage, and the responses to these effects that are currently being applied in two Northwest Alaska communities. BACKGROUND In Northwest Alaska, warming is resulting in a broad range of unusual weather and environmental conditio...

Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change pose challenges of national global importance. They continue to have impacts across the economy, society, health, environment, all which are determinants health well-being. Between 2018 2021, Public Health Wales undertook three Impact Assessments (HIA) in relation impact Wales. Based on these, work has been carried out map synergies ‘Triple Challenge’. This p...

Policy in all sectors affects health, through multiple pathways and determinants. Health policies (HiAP) is an approach that seeks to identify influence the health equity impacts of policy decisions, enhance benefits avoid harm. This usually involves use impact assessment or lens analysis. There growing international experience these approaches, some countries have cross-sectoral governance str...

Large infrastructure projects, such as mining and renewable energy can affect the health of surrounding communities by changing natural, physical social environment. While there is limited understanding potential impacts projects on local populations in general, a particular need for community-driven equity-oriented approaches to predict manage impacts. To assess perceived vulnerable affected l...