Chronic conditions are responsible for a significant proportion of early deaths.  They reduce quality of life in many of the adults living with them, represent substantial financial costs to patients and the health and social care system, and cause a significant loss of productivity to the economy. 

Access the original consultation draft from the Environmental Protection Agency on Strategic Environmental Assessment Process Checklist.
 

The full IPH response is below:

The European Commission launced a public consultation iin October 2009 on stakeholder views regarding the rationale, scope and strategic objectives for an EU role in global health.  Access the EU Commission issues paper

'The EU role in global health'

IPH made the following response to the Department of the Environment (NI) on the Draft Addendum to Planning Policy Statement 7.

Access the Draft Addendum to Planning Policy Statement 7

The IPH response in full:

The following submission was made by IPH to Central Statistics Office (ROI) on the content of the questionnaire for the 2011 Census of Population.

Introduction

The Institute of Public Health in Ireland

Chronic conditions are responsible for a significant proportion of early deaths.  They reduce quality of life in many of the adults living with them, represent substantial financial costs to patients and the health and social care system, and cause a significant loss of productivity to the economy. 

The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) is a partner in the European project DETERMINE, building on its previous involvement in the Closing the Gap project in 2004-2006. 

Department for Regional Development (DRD) launched a review into the current Regional Transportation Strategy Review in 2009. Travel behaviour can make a significant contribution to physical activity levels and subsequent risk of poor health including conditions such as obesity.  DRD can play a key role in tackling obesity in Northern Ireland through the Regional Transportation Strategy.  IPH submitted the below response.

 This Annual Update on Fuel Poverty (December 2009) follows the All-Ireland Policy Paper on Fuel Poverty and Health published in 2007 and the Annual Update on Fuel Poverty (December 2008).  It details develoments on the island of Ireland in policy and research, and activities of the statutory and voluntary sector. 

Access the ROI press release here

This guidance manual explains what Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is and the stages involved in conducting it. It has been revised and updated based on the experience of HIA practitioners and includes new tools which have been developed to assist each step of the HIA process.

It aims to provide a user friendly and practical framework to guide policy-makers and practitioners in undertaking HIA. All HIA tools contained in this guidance and further information on HIA may be found at http://www.publichealth.ie/hia