We used Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to analyze the impact on a given population's health outcomes in terms of all-causes mortality and respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations attributable to short-term exposure to particulate matter less than 10 μm diameter (PM10) in Bejaia city, for which health effects of air pollution have never been investigated. Two scenarios of PM10 reduction w...

Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) is a widely used process that aims to identify the health impacts, positive or negative, of policy intervention not necessarily placed in sector. Most HIAs are done prospectively and aim forecast expected impacts under assumed implementation. may quantitatively and/or qualitatively assess with this study focusing on former. A variety quantitative model...

Most often, patronage of open markets attracts huge populations buyers in Nigeria. These are numerous each state the country but largely share similar characteristics poor hygiene and sanitation. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was conducted at Shasha market, Oba-Ile, Akure to assess health implication markets, an emerging public concern. Air, water selected food samples were taken for microbial...

HIA is based on the theory of health determinants, which recognizes that well-being is determined by a wide range of economic, social and environmental factors, by heredity and medical intervention. The intended HIA procedure represents a new approach to the evaluation of all cantonal policies in order to assess their potential health impacts and to improve the quality of governmental decision ...

this brief commentary seeks to develop the analysis of daniels, porteny and urrutia of the implications of expansion of the scope of health technology assessment (hta) beyond issues of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. drawing in particular on experience in the united kingdom, it suggests that such expansion can be understood not only as a response to the problem of insufficiency of evi...

HIA implementation has rapidly grown in France. The question arises as to whether such growth is paving the way towards institutionalisation. An analytical framework was built based on literature, capturing key dimensions characterising practice and Collected data draw upon documented HIAs, evaluation reports, direct observations workshops. France follows a stand-alone procedure holistic model ...

Abstract Issue Hypertension (HT) is a major and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which can be caused by excessive salt intake. Portugal has one of the highest mortality rate due to CVD in Europe, mainly HT. Thus, reduction intake from food products strategies advocated modify blood pressure (BP) its impact on Description problem The Portuguese population daily bread con...

INTRODUCTION Ghana experienced its worst cholera outbreak in three decades in 2014. Evidence of cholera economic costs on affected households has been limited. This study aimed at determining economic costs on households affected by the  cholera outbreak in a Coastal Region of Ghana. METHODS Two districts; High and Low Incidence Areas (HIA and LIA) were selected in comparative cost analysis a...

Quantitative evidence of health and environmental tradeoffs between individuals' drinking water choices is needed to inform decision-making. We evaluated impacts using impact life cycle assessment (HIA, LCA) methodologies applied data from Barcelona, Spain. estimated the four scenarios for Barcelona population: 1) currently observed sources; a complete shift 2) tap water; 3) bottled or 4) filte...