Optimizing the health benefits of climate change policies using health impact assessment

Dannenberg, Andrew L.; Rogerson, Bethany; Rudolph, Linda

doi:10.1057/s41271-019-00189-y

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“…The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, hosts a web-based repository of information about HIAs conducted in the United States (Health Impact Project, 2017 ). HIA researchers commonly use this repository as a data source (Cole et al, 2019 ; Cowling et al, 2017 ; Dannenberg et al, 2019 ; Gase et al, 2017 ). Although uploading HIA information to the site is voluntary, this repository has been viewed as a largely complete picture of US practice since its inception in 2010.…”

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Health Impact Assessment: A Missed Opportunity for MCH Professionals in Their Quest to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Dills

Lawson

Branscomb

et al. 2022

Matern Child Health J

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Introduction Public health professionals, especially ones concerned with maternal and child health (MCH), need to engage in cross-sector collaborations to address social determinants of health. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) systematically brings public health perspectives into non-health decision-making contexts that influence social determinants. Alignment of MCH and HIA practice has not previously been documented. Methods An exploratory review of HIAs conducted in the United States considered several dimensions of MCH-HIA alignment and produced data to test the hypothesis that HIAs involving MCH stakeholders are more likely to address MCH populations and relevant measures. The review examined three key variables for each HIA: inclusion of MCH-focused stakeholders, level of focus on MCH populations, and presence of MCH-relevant content. Results Of the 424 HIAs included in the database of US HIAs, 350 were included in this review. Twenty-four percent (84) included MCH-focused stakeholders, and 42% (148) focused on MCH populations. Ninety percent (317) included metrics or content relevant to at least one Title V National Performance Measure (NPM). HIAs that clearly included MCH stakeholders had seven times the odds of including both a focus on MCH populations and at least one NPM-relevant topic compared to HIAs that did not clearly include MCH stakeholders (OR 6.98; 95% CI 3.99, 12.20). Discussion Despite low engagement of MCH stakeholders in HIAs, many still consider MCH populations and measures. Intentional engagement of MCH workforce in HIAs could ensure greater alignment with existing MCH priorities (such as addressing the social determinants of health and equity) in a given jurisdiction.

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confidence: 99%

Health Impact Assessment: A Missed Opportunity for MCH Professionals in Their Quest to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Dills

Lawson

Branscomb

et al. 2022

Matern Child Health J

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“…Robust Health Impact Assessments help potentially affected individuals and communities to make informed decisions about proposed projects. 90…”

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The Natural Environment as an Object of Public Health Law: Addressing Health Outcomes of Climate Change through Intersections with Environmental and Agricultural Law

Krueger¹,

Lawton²

2020

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.

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“…The global glaciers are melting at an accelerated rate as a result of warmer temperatures, and the two levels of melting ice and expanding seawater caused by global warming will endanger coastal areas around the world, with many small maritime nations now suffering from widespread seawater intrusion. Warming has a direct impact on human health, with heat-related morbidity rates and mortality rates increasing as the number and extent of heat waves continue to rise [5,6]. Especially in the poorer, most vulnerable developing countries, people in these countries and regions face water and food shortages and greater health risks due to a lack of social and technological resources and funding for adaptation.…”

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The Regime Complexes for Global Climate Governance

Zhang

Bai

2023

Sustainability

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Climate change is a major challenge for human society in the 21st century and an important issue in the context of sustainable development governance. As the density of institutions in global climate governance increases, so does the potential for overlap and interaction between the various elements of institutions. The current global climate governance issue is no longer solely a state-centric governance model but presents a complex manifestation of a complex of mechanisms. Taking a global climate governance perspective, this paper finds that the institutional complex of global climate governance is shaped by internal factors, such as self-attribution, rights, and interest linkages. External factors include the rapid development of globalization and the non-governmental state of the international community. The internal logic of the institutional complex is based on the institutional fragmentation of multiple interested parties involved in the governance process and the interaction patterns of internal actors. The institutional complex of global climate governance has the following implications for policy-making: the strength of the institutional complex refers to the framework of decision-making; the flexibility of the arguments provides stakeholders with demands related to their interests and inspires different countries to join in the governance of global climate change.

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Optimizing the health benefits of climate change policies using health impact assessment

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Health Impact Assessment: A Missed Opportunity for MCH Professionals in Their Quest to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Health Impact Assessment: A Missed Opportunity for MCH Professionals in Their Quest to Address the Social Determinants of Health

The Natural Environment as an Object of Public Health Law: Addressing Health Outcomes of Climate Change through Intersections with Environmental and Agricultural Law

The Regime Complexes for Global Climate Governance

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