Health Impact Assessment contributing to healthy public policy

IPH hosted the 8th International HIA conference in 2007 entitled ‘Healthy Public Policy – Is Health Impact Assessment the Cornerstone’.  As a follow up to the conference, IPH has produced a mini symposium as part of the Public Health Journal.  The mini-symposium provides an overview of three of the contributions to the conference:

 

Guest editorial - Health Impact Assessment contributing to Healthy Public Policy, O Metcalfe & C Higgins

Articles –

Healthy public policy – is health impact assessment the cornerstone?, O Metcalfe & C Higgins

Health impact assessment: The contribution of the right to the highest attainable standard of health, G. MacNaughton, P. Hunt

A review of the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative methods used in health impact assessment, E. O'Connell, F. Hurley