Health impact assessment (HIA) is a decision-support tool that aims at maximizing benefits and minimizing negative impacts on people's health. A core value of HIA is equity; yet, little is known about health equity in the frame of HIA, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.Methodology: We ...
Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged in the U.S. as one promising process to increase social and environmental justice through addressing health equity issues within planning. HIA practice is guided by values such as democracy and equity and grounded in broad social determinants of health. ...
Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) is a tool used to assess the potential health impacts of proposed projects, programs, and policies. The extent of the use of HIAs conducted on health sector proposals, and what they focus on, is currently largel
The value proposition from approaching health equity in a robust way is compelling globally, particularly in large, advanced economies.There is also a values proposition: the benefits to patients and the holistic impact on society. Many studies find that higher levels of trust in doctor...
In regard to policy and practice, there should be increased focus on equality and equity impact assessments for policies related to health and social care provision for care-experienced individuals, both when they are a targeted population or recipients of universal provision. Such assessments are inc...
Impact Assessments - existing procedures and potentials for health and health equity By learning about the different impact assessment procedures in place, potential synergies and entry points for health and health equity could be found. In... G Gruber,M Weigl,S Ecker,... - 《European Journal ...
but badly designed contracts can result in governments, and hence the community, bearing high risks while gaining no return. Such policies may therefore reduce rather than enhance public welfare and so impact adversely on health and health equity [53]. Quiggin argued for consideration of a return...
and J.X. conducted air quality modelling and health impact assessments; X.H. provided the individual travel pattern dataset and UF analytic method; X.L., Y.W. and S.Z. analysed the data; J.H., J.X. and S.W. provided valuable discussions; X.L., Y.W., K.M.Z. and S.Z. ...
While these programs increase the non-NIP vaccine coverage in certain regions, they widen the equity gap. Besides, these subsidy programs are not guaranteed by the regular budget, as vaccines are competing for the same financial resources with other public health programs [11], and increasing ...
Equity and efficiency are two fundamental principles for the sound development of health systems, as advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite the notable progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in advancing th