Current Global Health Impact Assessment Practice
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Health impact assessment (HIA) practice has expanded across the world, since it was established more than two decades ago. This paper presents a snapshot of current global HIA practice based on the findings of an online questionnaire survey. HIA practitioners from all world regions were invited to participate. A total of 122 HIA practitioners from 29 countries completed the survey, following a broad international outreach effort. The large variety in the types of HIAs conducted, and the application of HIA in various fields reported by respondents, demonstrates that HIA practice has evolved over the past two decades. Although differences in the use of HIA were reported across world regions, an overall increasing trend in global HIA practice can be observed. In order to sustain this upward trend, efforts are needed to address the main barriers in the utilisation of HIA. The establishment of new national and international HIA teaching and training offerings seems to be an obvious strategy to pursue along with the strengthening of policies and legal frameworks that specify the circumstances, under which HIA is required, and to what extent.
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HIA was identified as a distinct practice in 1999 and rapidly gained popularity and was progressively deployed on all continents, whether under a regulatory framework or institutional initiative.
“Identifiée comme pratique propre en 1999, elle a gagné rapidement en popularité et a été progressivement déployée sur tous les continents avec des déclinaisons diverses en termes de stratégies d'implantation, de domaines d'application, d'échelles de mise en œuvre, de modes de gouvernance, d'institutions et d'acteurs impliqués.”
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Le recours à l'EIS continue de croître, même si sa progression varie selon les continents.
“Le recours à l'EIS continue de croître même si sa progression varie selon les continents[2].”
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International literature reports HIA deployment worldwide and multiple variations in implementation strategies, forms and areas of application, scales, governance modes, institutions, and actors involved.
“La littérature internationale rend compte du déploiement de l'EIS à travers le monde et de la multiplicité des déclinaisons de la pratique en termes de stratégies d'implantation, de formes et domaines d'application, d'échelles de mise en œuvre, de modes de gouvernance, d'institutions et d'acteurs impliqués [2,10].”
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Plusieurs auteurs considèrent que l'EIS ouvre de nouveaux horizons et peut opérationnaliser le concept de « santé planétaire ».
“plusieurs auteurs considèrent que l'EIS ouvre de nouveaux horizons et peut, à l'aune de ces principes, réussir à opérationnaliser le concept de « santé planétaire » [2,40,41].”
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- Authors
- Winkler, M. S., Furu, P., Viliani, F., Cave, B., Divall, M., Ramesh, G., Harris-Roxas, B., & Knoblauch, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (CH)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- International SOS, Vesterbrogade 149, 1620 København V Copenhagen, Denmark
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Shape Consulting, P.O. Box 602, St Peter Port GY1, Guernsey, UK
- Advisian, 151 Canada Olympic Rd, Calgary, AB T3B 6B7, Canada
- Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
- Corresponding author
- Winkler, Mirko S.
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-04-25
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2988
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7246701
- OpenAlex
- W3019775582
- Cited by
- 85
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 17.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- edoc (University of Basel) (acceptedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- edoc (University of Basel)
- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (169461)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Keywords
- health impact assessment
- MeSH terms
- Health Policy, Humans, Policy Making, Surveys and Questionnaires, Policy, Health Impact Assessment
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