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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"health impact assessment"”.
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Development and Application of Strategies for Health Impact Assessment of Projects and Policies
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a combination of procedures, methods and tools used to evaluate potential health outcomes associated with proposed projects, programs and policies. An HIA differs from other types of assessments in its consideration of both positive and negative health outcomes, …
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Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Thailand: a case study of a Potash mine HIA in Udon Thani, Thailand
While health impact assessment (HIA) theory and practice has emerged worldwide to consider ‘human health’ as a core component of sustainable development, the benefits gained from HIA have been questioned. The ways people perceive HIA seem to be context specific and, therefore, this research aims at …
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Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy
… understood that the public policies of ‘non-health’ government sectors have greater impacts on population health than those of the traditional healthcare realm. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a decision support tool that identifies and promotes the health benefits of policies while also …
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Health Risks from On-Road Truck Emissions in Little Village, Chicago Pre- and Post-COVID Pandemic
… particulate matter (PM2.5) poses significant health risks, including increased mortality, and truck emissions are a major contributor to urban PM2.5 pollution. As freight activity intensifies in densely populated cities, understanding the impact of truck-related emissions on air quality and …
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Planning Out Obesity
… in obesity levels is not only an international health crisis but also a social and financial burden. Traditional health promotion approaches to address the problem have received limited success. The collaboration of a number of diverse sectors, for example social, economic, and environmental, …
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Cumulative Effects on Human Health within the Hydroelectric Sector: A Case Study of Manitoba Hydro
… single watershed, which can generate significant impacts on the surrounding biophysical environment and on the health and well-being of local communities. The impacts of those activities may be insignificant individually, yet together may have an important cumulative effect. The impacts of …
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Developing best available evidence to inform healthy public policy
Healthy public policy refers to the use of policies beyond the health services which have the potential to improve health, typically by improving determinants of health, for example socio-economic conditions such as employment, income, housing etc.. While improvements to living conditions have long …
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Pilot testing models of task shifting for the care of severe mental illness in South Africa
… in people with severe mental illness. Mental health services are however under-resourced, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Interventions that employ task shifting, the delegation of health care delivery tasks to less specialized health workers, have the potential to address this …