The role of Health Impact Assessment in promoting population health and health equity

Wise, Marilyn; Harris, Patrick; Harris‐Roxas, Ben; Harris, Elizabeth

doi:10.1071/he09172

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“…These all show that policies and programs related to prevention and control of T2DM in our country still need to be restructured and updated under broad-based participation and strategic partnership between health and other sectors to influence public policy to create the social, economic, environmental and cultural conditions necessary for diabetes prevention and health [33]. In this case, Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can serve as an approach that offers the health sector a structured, transparent method and process to work with other sectors to forecast the impact of policy proposals on the health of populations (and on the determinants of diabetes), and to forecast the distribution of these impacts in advance of adoption and implementation of the policy [34].…”

Section: Building Healthy Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ottawa charter framework as a guide for type 2 diabetes prevention and control in Iran

Peimani

Nasli‐Esfahani

Shakibazadeh

2019

J Diabetes Metab Disord

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The growth of T2DM in Iran is predicted to be even greater than the global trend. So a new public health movement to effectively prevent and manage T2DM is required more than ever. The solution has lain in the heart of the Ottawa Charter, the first international conference on health promotion more than 30 years ago. The charter contains five useful actions to facilitate the process of diseases prevention and control: 1) building healthy public policy, 2) creating supportive environments, 3) strengthening community action, 4) developing personal skills, and 5) reorienting health care services toward promotion of health. The charter articulates health in all policies and their frameworks. The aim of this review is to examine how the five actions have been implemented in Iran and can serve as a guide to prevent and control diabetes. Several national case studies will be examined to illustrate the challenges facing Iran's health system. It enables the identification and sharing of best practice between countries.

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Section: Building Healthy Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ottawa charter framework as a guide for type 2 diabetes prevention and control in Iran

Peimani

Nasli‐Esfahani

Shakibazadeh

2019

J Diabetes Metab Disord

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“…HIA is a means of evidence-based decision making to promote positive outcomes and reduce the potential harm of policies that do not have improvements in human health as a primary objective. 32 – 34 The transdisciplinary research process brings scientific, experiential, and contextual evidence to the table. One Health issues such as air pollution and food contamination scares have driven the need for transdisciplinary collaboration to both understand these complex issues and to generate novel approaches to addressing the immediate health threat without generating harmful unintended outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Academic Institutions and One Health

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To improve health at the human, animal, and ecosystem interface, defined as One Health, training of researchers must transcend individual disciplines to develop a new process of collaboration. The transdisciplinary research approach integrates frameworks and methodologies beyond academic disciplines and includes involvement of and input from policy makers and members of the community. The authors argue that there should be a significant shift in academic institutions’ research capacity to achieve the added value of a transdisciplinary approach for addressing One Health problems. This Perspective is a call to action for academic institutions to provide the foundations for this salient shift. The authors begin by describing the transdisciplinary approach, propose methods for building transdisciplinary research capacity, and highlight three value propositions that support the case. Examples are provided to illustrate how the transdisciplinary approach to research adds value through improved sustainability of impact, increased cost-effectiveness, and enhanced abilities to mitigate potentially harmful unintended consequences. The authors conclude with three key recommendations for academic institutions: (1) a focus on creating enabling environments for One Health and transdisciplinary research, (2) the development of novel funding structures for transdisciplinary research, and (3) training of “transmitters” using real-world-oriented educational programs that break down research silos through collaboration across disciplines.

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“…HIA, when it emerged as a field in the 1990s, had two main drivers; EIA and Healthy Public Policy [13]. In contrast to EIA's positivist disciplinary tendencies, healthy public policy draws more from the fields of social sciences, political economy, and political science and tends to be more socially constructivist in epistemological origin [5,[13][14][15].…”

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HIA and EIA Are Different, but Maybe Not in the Way We Thought They Were: A Bibliometric Analysis

Kim

Haigh

2021

IJERPH

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Background: The fields of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) have grown with increasing numbers of disciplines and sectors contributing to their advancements, but with it, perceived conflict over methodological and disciplinary approaches to integrate health in impact assessments. This study maps the current field of HIA and health in EIA to examine the scientific landscape of the field. Methods: We carried out a bibliometric analysis of HIA papers and EIA papers that included a health focus in peer-reviewed journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (n = 229). We carried out co-authorship and co-citation network analyses of authors and documents in VOSviewer. Results: We identified two main co-authorship and co-citation groupings. Our document co-citation analysis also identified four clusters with two major groups, the Defining HIA cluster and the Describing the fields cluster versus the Active transport quantitative HIA cluster, and the Quantitative modelling tools cluster. Conclusion: Our findings strongly suggest that there exist two groups of thought in the scholarly fields of HIA and health in EIA. Barriers to developing more methodologically integrated approaches to considering health within EIA are related more to disciplinary differences than field (HIA versus EIA)-based differences and we advocate for the development of transdisciplinary approaches to both HIA and EIA.

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The role of Health Impact Assessment in promoting population health and health equity

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Ottawa charter framework as a guide for type 2 diabetes prevention and control in Iran

Ottawa charter framework as a guide for type 2 diabetes prevention and control in Iran

Academic Institutions and One Health

HIA and EIA Are Different, but Maybe Not in the Way We Thought They Were: A Bibliometric Analysis

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