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Zusatztext . . . a most welcome and significant contribution to the growing body of HIA literature . . . this book fills a very important gap in the literature, serves as resource for training future assessors, and could become a standard text. Klappentext Health effects are often overlooked when planning development projects ranging from new runways at major airport sites to developing water supply systems to improve sanitation. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is the assessment of the health effects! positive or negative! of a project! programme! or policy. It is therefore concerned with the health of populations and attempts to predict the future consequences for health of decisions which have not yet been implemented. HIA is a new and growing field with numerous schools of thought and areas of controversy. This book is the first to give a comprehensive overview of the concepts! theory! techniques and applications of HIA to aid all those preparing projects or carrying out assessments. It draws on examples and thinking from many different disciplines and many parts of the world. It identifies theareas of agreement and the questions remaining unanswered. It maps a confused field and signposts possible directions for future progress. Health Impact assessment is intended to help decision makers in all areas forsee the consequences of their decisions! to ensure the consequences are considered and reduce risk of population health being damaged through some indirect and unintended consequence of a decision. This book is a practical handbook for those preparing the assessments be they epidemiologists! environmentalists! health economists or public health specialists as well as serving as a conceptual guide for policy makers! decision makers and planners at national and international levels. This bookwill serve both as a reference for the established HIA practitioner and as an introduction for the novice. Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of Health Impact Assessment. This book is useful to those preparing projects or carrying out assessments. It draws on examples and thinking from many different disciplines and many parts of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: John Kemm and Jayne Parry: What is HIA? Introduction and overview 2: John Kemm and Jayne Parry: The development of HIA 3: Johan P Mackenbach, J Lennert Veerman, Jan JM Barendregt and Anton E Kunst: Health inequalities and HIA 4: Stephen Palmer: Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology 5: Juhani Lehto: The contribution of the social sciences to HIA 6: Mark McCarthy and Martin Utley: Quantitative approaches to HIA 7: Mark Petticrew, Sally Macintyre and Hilary Thomson: Evidence and HIA 8: Eva Elliott, Gareth Williams and Ben Rolfe: The role of lay knowledge in HIA 9: Jennifer Mindell, Mike Joffe and Erica Ison: Planning an HIA 10: Kate Ardern: HIA: a practitioners view 11: Erica Ison: Rapid appraisal techniques 12: Alan Bond: Lessons from EIA 13: Maurice B. Mittelmark, Doris E. Gillis and Bridget Hsu Hage: Community development: the role of HIA 14: Anna Ritsatakis: HIA at the international policy making level 15: Reiner Banken: HIA of policy in Canada 16: Ernst W Roscam Abbing: HIA and national policy in the Netherlands 17: Margaret Douglas, Jill Muirie: HIA in Scotland 18: Ceri Breeze: The experience of HIA in Wales 19: Karin Berensson: HIA at the local level in Sweden 20: John Wright: HIA in Australia 21: Caron Bowen: HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy 22: Sue Milner: Using HIA in local government 23: Rainer Fehr, Odile Mekel and Rudolf Welteke: HIA: the German perspective 24: Brigit A.M. Staatsen, Erik Lebret, Ellis A.M. Franssen, Carla M.A.G. van Wiechen and Danny Houthuijs: HIA i...
