Glasgow: a smoke-free city by the year 2000?

Prospective health impact assessment: pitfalls, problems, and possible ways forward

“…McIntyre and Petticrew note that “the identification and incorporation of relevant evidence, its appraisal for methodological soundness and relevance, and its incorporation with qualitative evidence is likely to be difficult, but crucial to the validity of health impact assessments.”12 An explicit description of the search strategies and quality assessment criteria used to identify the evidence cited in published health impact assessments is often absent; this suggests that most have not been informed by systematic review of the evidence. w1-w7 Such flawed reviews are likely to result in biased and inaccurate effect estimates 13 .…”