Health impact assessment : concepts, theory, techniques, and applications / edited by John Kemm, Jayne Parry, Stephen Palmer.

Providing a comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of Health Impact Assessment to aid all those preparing projects or carrying out assessments, this book draws on examples and thinking from many different disciplines and many parts of the world.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kemm, J. R., Parry, Jayne, Palmer, Stephen R.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:	Oxford medical publications.
Subjects:	Health risk assessment. Risk assessment. Risk. Health. Risk management. Pollution. Health services administration. Organization. Medical care. Probabilities. Social control. Medical personnel. Statistics. Social sciences. Sociology. Public health. risk assessment. health. risk management. probability. social sciences. sociology. public health. chemical pollution. pollution. statistics. MEDICAL > Toxicology. Statistics Sociology Social sciences Social control Risk management Risk assessment Risk Public health Probabilities Pollution Organization Medical personnel Medical care Health services administration Health Health risk assessment
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Abbreviations page
Contributors page
1 What is HIA? Introduction and overview
2 The development of HIA
3 Health inequalities and HIA
4 Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology
5 The contribution of the social sciences to HIA
6 Quantitative approaches to HIA
7 Evidence and HIA
8 The role of lay knowledge in HIA
9 Planning an HIA
10 HIA: a practitioner's view
11 Rapid appraisal techniques
12 Lessons from EIA
13 Community development: the role of HIA
14 HIA at the international policy-making level
15 HIA of policy in Canada
16 HIA and national policy in the Netherlands
17 HIA in Scotland
18 The experience of HIA in Wales
19 HIA at the local level in Sweden
20 HIA in Australia
21 HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy
22 Using HIA in local government
23 HIA: the German perspective
24 HIA in Schiphol Airport
25 The Finningley Airport HIA: a case study
26 HIA and urban regeneration: the Ferrier estate, England
27 Impact Assessment in Canada: an evolutionary process
28 HIA and waste disposal
29 HIA and fears of toxicity: health risk assessment of a control programme for the white-spotted tussock moth in New Zealand
30 The HIA of crime prevention
31 Expanding the number of places for medical student training in England: an assessment of the impacts
32 HIA in developing countries
33 HIA of agricultural and food policies
34 HIA and the National Alcohol Strategy for England
35 HIA in SEA and its application to policy in Europe
36 Future directions for HIA
Index.

Health impact assessment : concepts, theory, techniques, and applications / edited by John Kemm, Jayne Parry, Stephen Palmer.

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