Overview

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process which helps decision making by predicting the consequences for health of choosing different options in terms of policies, plans, and projects. There is growing interest among health professionals, planners and politicians in using HIA to help safeguard and improve the health of populations and reduce health inequalities. Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress explores the past development of HIA, its current practice and possible future. Written in two parts, the first section by John Kemm provides an overview describing the various ways in which an HIA can be done. Highly practical in emphasis, it describes how HIA can be applied in different contexts to meet the needs of different decision makers and answer a variety of questions. It deals not only with the many good reasons for using HIA but also critically examines the weaknesses of current practice. The second part consists of chapters written by authors practising HIA from different countries throughout the world, demonstrating the various pressures and legislative frameworks that have shaped the evolution of HIA. Illustrating the range of views about the reasons for doing HIA and how it should be done, and revealing how the practice of HIA has been adapted to suit different cultures and help decision making in varying situations.

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Author:   John Kemm (Former Director, West Midlands Public Health Observatory, and Director, JK Public Health Consulting Ltd, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9780199656011

ISBN 10:   0199656010
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   29 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1John Kemm: 1: Origins and outline of Health Impact Assessment 2: Screening and scoping 3: Quantitative assessment 4: Qualitative assessment: lay and civic knowledge 5: Recommendations and reports 6: Values and ethics of Health Impact Assessment 7: Evaluation and Quality assurance of Health Impact Assessment 8: Health Impact Assessment of policy 9: Health in other impact assessments 10: Application of Health Impact Assessment to various topics 11: Making Health Impact Assessment happen Part 2 12: Eva Elliott, Gareth Williams, Chloe Chadderton and Liz Green: Devolution, evolution and expectation: Health Impact Assessment in Wales 13: Margaret Douglas and Martin Higgins: Health Impact Assessment in Scotland 14: Owen Metcalfe, Teresa Laverty and Clair Higgins: Health Impact Assessment in the Island of Ireland 15: Lea den Broeder and Brigit Staatsen: Health Impact Assessment in Netherlands 16: Elena Aldosoro, Artundo Carlos and Ana Rivadeneyra: Health Impact Assessment in Spain 17: Rainer Fehr and Odile Mekel: Health Impact Assessment in Germany 18: Marie Louise Bistrup and Henrik Bronnum-Hansen: Health Impact Assessment in Denmark 19: Jean Simos and Nicola Cantoreggi: Health Impact Assessment in Switzerland 20: Jean Simos and Nicolas Prisse: Health Impact Assessment in France 21: Liliana Cori and Fabrizio Bianchi: Health Impact Assessment in Italy 22: Gabriel Gulis: Health Impact Assessment in new member states and accession countries of EU 23: Andrew Dannenberg and Aaron Wernham: Health Impact Assessment in United States 24: Louise St-Pierre and Anika Mendell: Health Impact Assessment in Canada 25: Ben Harris-Roxas, Patrick Harris, Marilyn Wise, Fiona Haigh, Harrison Ng Chok and Elizabeth Harris: Health Impact Assessment in Australia 26: Siriwan Chandanachulaka: Development of Health Impact Assessment in Thailand 27: Yoshihisa Fujino: Health Impact Assessment in Japan 28: Eunjeong Kang: Health Impact Assessment in Korea 29: Gary Krieger, Burton Singer, Mirko Winkler, Mark Divall, Marcel Tanner and Juerg Utzinger: Health Impact Assessment in developing countries 30: Kwaku Poko Asante and Seth Owusu-Agyei: Health Impact Assessment in Ghana 31: Carlos Dora: A perspective on Health Impact Assessment, global health and the role of WHO

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Author Information

John Kemm has recently retired as director of the West Midlands Public Health Observatory and now directs JK Public Health Consulting, a public health consultancy. He has had 35 years of experience working in public health and for the NHS. Prior to this he has been Deputy Regional Director of Public Health for the West Midlands, Director of Public Health for Health Promotion Wales, Consultant in Public Health for South Birmingham Health Authority, and a Senior Lecturer at both Birmingham and Nottingham Medical schools. Before taking up public health he taught physiology in Newcastle and at the Khartoum Medical School, Sudan. He qualified in Medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas Hospital, London. He started working on Health Impact Assessment when in Wales. He has led many health impact assessments and acted as consultant for several more. He has published numerous papers on the subject and is regularly invited to speak on HIA at workshops and conferences.

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