Health impact assessment : concepts, theory, techniques, and applications

Contents Abbreviations page xi Contributors page xiii 1 What is HIA? Introduction and overview 1 John Kemm and Jayne Parry 2 The development of HIA 15 John Kemm and Jayne Parry 3 Health inequalities and HIA 25 Johan P Mackenbach, J Lennert Veerman, Jan JM Barendregt, and Anton E Kunst 4 Causal mechanisms for HIA: learning from epidemiology 39 Stephen Palmer 5 The contribution of the social sciences to HIA 53 Juhani Lehto 6 Quantitative approaches to HIA 61 Mark McCarthy and Martin Utley 7 Evidence and HIA 71 Mark Petticrew, Sally Macintyre, and Hilary Thomson 8 The role of lay knowledge in HIA 81 Eva Elliott, Gareth Williams, and Ben Rolfe 9 Planning an HIA 91 Jennifer Mindell, Mike Joffe, and Erica Ison 10 HIA: a practitioner’s view 103 Kate Ardern 11 Rapid appraisal techniques 115 Erica Ison 12 Lessons from EIA 131 Alan Bond 13 Community development: the role of HIA 143 Maurice B Mittelmark, Doris E Gillis, and Bridget Hsu-Hage 14 HIA at the international policy-making level 153 Anna Ritsatakis 15 HIA of policy in Canada 165 Reiner Banken 16 HIA and national policy in the Netherlands 177 Ernst W Roscam Abbing 17 HIA in Scotland 191 Margaret Douglas and Jill Muirie 18 The experience of HIA in Wales 201 Ceri Breeze 19 HIA at the local level in Sweden 213 Karin Berensson 20 HIA in Australia 223 John SF Wright 21 HIA and policy development in London: using HIA as a tool to integrate health considerations into strategy 235 Caron Bowen 22 Using HIA in local government 243 Susan J Milner 23 HIA: the German perspective 253 Rainer Fehr, Odile Mekel, and Rudolf Welteke 24 HIA in Schiphol Airport 265 Brigit AM Staatsen, Ellis AM Franssen, Carla MAG van Wiechen, Danny Houthuijs and Erik Lebret 25 The Finningley Airport HIA: a case study 285 Muna I Abdel Aziz, John Radford, and John McCabe 26 HIA and urban regeneration: the Ferrier estate, England 299 Ruth Barnes 27 Impact Assessment in Canada: an evolutionary process 309 Roy E Kwiatkowski 28 HIA and waste disposal 317 Ian Matthews 29 HIA and fears of toxicity: health risk assessment of a control programme for the white-spotted tussock moth in New Zealand 329 Donald M Campbell 30 The HIA of crime prevention 341 Alex Hirschfield viii CONTENTS 31 Expanding the number of places for medical student training in England: an assessment of the impacts 351 Jonathan Mathers and Jayne Parry 32 HIA in developing countries 363 Martin Birley 33 HIA of agricultural and food policies 375 Karen Lock and Mojca Gabrijelcic-Blenkus 34 HIA and the National Alcohol Strategy for England 389 John Kemm 35 HIA in SEA and its application to policy in Europe 403 Carlos Dora 36 Future directions for HIA 411 Jayne Parry and John Kemm Index 419 CONTENTS ix