Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was disseminated by World Health Organization (WHO) European Region in Gothenburg consensus paper in 1999. In this consensus, HIA is defined as 'a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, program or project may be judged as to its ...
The authors discuss the aspects of health impact assessment (HIA) in public health practice. Topics include the confusion among public health officials on the definitions of HIA, the three conditions of HIA and the lack of understanding on the purpose of HIA. Also emphasized is the lack of ...
'Fit for purpose' health impact assessment: a realistic way forward. The UK government is committed to health impact assessment (HIA) as a means of ensuring that health will be a key consideration in policy formulation and o... SJ Milner,C Bailey,J Deans - 《Public Health》 被引量: 35...
aWhat levels of health effect are acceptable in impact assessment? For cancer, environmental risks of one in a million over a lifetime have traditionally been proposed as ‘acceptable’, while a risk of one in ten thousand is moving towards ‘unacceptable’. Risks under personal control or voli...
are responsible for ensuring that the PIAs are conducted and reviewed for applicable IT systems. The Act also mandates a PIA be conducted when an IT system is substantially revised. Federal agencies, such as the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce and Health and Human Servicesoffer ...
including global warming potential, natural resource depletion, stratospheric ozone depletion, acidification, photochemical ozone creation, eutrophication, and human and aquatic toxicity, to name a few. The goal is to model the raw LCI data into potential damage to the ecosystems, human health, and ...
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Examples of situations where a DPIA should be conducted to proactively ensure the privacy and security of sensitive information include the following: A bank screening its customers against a credit reference database. A hospital planning to implement a new health information database with patients' ...
then it would be required to carry out an impact assessment on the system in order to determine if the system is doing what it is supposed to do or if any changes are required in order to improve effectiveness of the system. Therefore, there is a very important correlation between the mis...
data quality and limitations, and you systematically evaluate any opportunities for reducing the negative effects of the product(s) or service(s) on the environment while avoiding burden shifting between impact categories or life cycle phases. Avoiding burden shifting is a core strength of the LCA ...