Health impact assessment : past achievement, current understanding, and future progress / edited by John Kemm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book describes the past development of Health Impact Assessment (HIA), its current practice and possible future. It provides an overview of HIA methods and addresses the controversies that are impacting the evolution of HIA, through the experiences of the author and other HIA practitioners around the world.

Introducing HIA / John Kemm -- HIA across the world. Devolution, evolution, and expectation : health impact assessment in Wales / Eva Elliott [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Scotland / Margaret Douglas and Martin Higgins ; Health impact assessment in the island of Ireland / Owen Metcalfe, Claire Higgins, and Teresa Lavin ; Development of health impact assessment in the Netherlands / Lea den Broeder and Brigit Staatsen ; Health impact assessment in Spain / Elena Aldosoro, Carlos Artundo, and Ana Rivadeneyra ; Health impact assessment in Germany / Rainer Fehr and Odile Mekel; Health impact assessment in Denmark / Marie Louise Bistrup and Henrik Brønnum-Hansen ; Health impact assessment in Switzerland / Jean Simos and Nicola Cantoreggi ; Health impact assessment in France / Jean Simos and Nicolas Prisse ; Health impact assessment in Italy / Fabrizio Bianchi and Liliana Cori ; Health impact assessment in new member states and pre-accession countries of the EU / Gabriel Gulis ; Health impact assessment in the USA / Andrew Dannenberg and Aaron Wernham ; Health impact assessment in Canada / Louise St-Pierre and Anika Mendell ; Health impact assessment in Australia / Ben Harris-Roxas [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Thailand / Siriwan Chandanachulaka ; Health impact assessment in Japan / Yoshihisa Fujino ; Health impact assessment in Korea / Eunjeong Kang ; Health impact assessment in developing countries / Gary Krieger [and others] ; Health impact assessment in Ghana / Kwaku Poko Asante and Seth Owusu-Agyei ; A perspective on health impact assesment, global health and the role of the WHO / Carlos Dora.

English.

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