Untapped potential of health impact assessment

Winkler, Mirko S.; Krieger, Gary R.; Divall, Mark J.; Cissé, Guéladio; Wielga, Mark; Singer, Burton H.; Tanner, Marcel; Utzinger, Jürg

doi:10.2471/blt.12.112318

Cited by 97 publications

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“…Relatedly, newspaper and other media sources appear to underscore the connections between policy and science, explain HIAs, and discuss health determinants. The prominence of these themes across newspaper documents is consistent with previous research that stresses the ability of HIAs to heighten awareness across communities and sectors (Winkler et al, 2013;Gottlieb et al, 2012;Harris-Roxas & Harris, 2013). Our analysis supports the possibility that media depictions are a mechanism through which HIAs raise awareness beyond the HIA team and its partners and may also present an important way to measure attempts to heighten awareness.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers

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Coughenour²,

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers

Gakh

Coughenour²,

Pharr³

et al. 2017

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“…This tool allows one to evaluate a project and its potential health impacts and propose mitigation actions for health promotion (Brasil, 2014;Winkler et al, 2013). In Brazil, the concept was disseminated in 2014 by the Ministry of Health of Brazil with the publication of a national guide aimed at transferring the HIA methodology in the country.…”

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Health Impact Assessment of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil

Veronez¹,

Abe²,

Miraglia

2018

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“…Integrated health assessments can systematically identify and quantify the many pathways through which climate change can affect health in different social and ecological contexts. The World Health Organization suggests that a natural point of entry for health impact assessments is during the planning process for climate-induced relocations because the assessment can put the key health issues in front of the policy makers who directly influence the implementation of plans (Winkler et al 2013). …”

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Climate-induced community relocations: using integrated social-ecological assessments to foster adaptation and resilience

Bronen¹

2015

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ABSTRACT. Extreme weather events coupled with sea level rise and erosion will cause coastal and riverine areas where people live and maintain livelihoods to disappear permanently. Adaptation to these environmental changes, including the permanent relocation of millions of people, requires new governance tools. In the USA, local governments, often with state-level and national-level support, will be primarily responsible for protecting residents from climate-change impacts and implementing policies needed to protect their welfare. Government agencies have a variety of tools to facilitate protection in place and managed coastal retreat but have very limited tools to facilitate community relocation. In addition, no institutional mechanism currently exists to determine whether and when preventive relocation needs to occur to protect people from climate change impacts. Based on research involving four Alaska Native communities threatened by climate-induced environmental impacts, I propose the design and implementation of an adaptive governance framework to respond to the need to relocate populations. In this context, adaptive governance means the ability of institutions to dynamically respond to climate change impacts. A component of this adaptive governance framework is a social-ecological monitoring and assessment tool that can facilitate collaborative knowledge production by community residents and governance institutions to guide sustainable adaptation strategies and determine whether and when relocation needs to occur. The framework, including the monitoring and assessment tool, has not been systematically tested. However, the potential use of this tool is discussed by drawing on empirical examples of Alaskan communities faced with accelerating rates of erosion.

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Untapped potential of health impact assessment

Cited by 97 publications

References 36 publications

Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers

Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers

Health Impact Assessment of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil

Climate-induced community relocations: using integrated social-ecological assessments to foster adaptation and resilience

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