Loading...
The role of health impact assessment for shaping policies and making cities healthier
Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark Khreis, Haneen Verlinghieri, Ersilia Mueller, Natalie Rojas-Rueda, David
Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark
Khreis, Haneen
Verlinghieri, Ersilia
Mueller, Natalie
Rojas-Rueda, David
Abstract
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an important tools to integrate evidence in the decision-making process, and introduce health in all policies. In urban and transport planning, HIAs have been used generally to assess qualitatively urban interventions rather than offering more useful/powerful estimations to stakeholders through quantitative approaches. HIAs could answer various pressing questions such as: what are the best and most feasible urban and transport planning policy measures to improve public health in cities? Also the process on how to get there is often as important as the actual output of the HIA, as the process may provide answers to important questions as to how different disciplines/sectors can effectively work together and develop a common language, how to best incorporate citizen and stakeholder, how different modelling and measurement methods can be effectively integrated, and whether a public health approach could make changes in urban and transport planning.
Keywords
health impact assessment, transport planning, urban planning policies, traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), average traffic speed
Date
2019
Type
Book chapter
Journal
Book
Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning: A Framework
Volume
Issue
Page Range
609-624
Article Number
ACU Department
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Collections
Relation URI
Source URL
Event URL
Open Access Status
License
All rights reserved
File Access
Controlled