The versatility of health impact assessment: experiences in Andalusia and other European settings

xvi + 106 p. ; The driving forces behind current health challenges often lie outside the direct control of the health sector; ensuring the inclusion of health and well-being as a key component of policy development in all sectors (the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach) has been emphasized as the best way to approach these challenges. As a tool to this end, health impact assessment (HIA) can be used to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, programme or project related to population health and the distribution of these effects within the population. This publication de... Mehr ...