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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(5):436-438; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn086
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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HIA forecast: cloudy with sunny spells later?

Hilary Thomson

MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ

Correspondence: e-mail: hilary@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk

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   Introduction
 
The last few years of the 20th century may be regarded as the coming of age for Health Impact Assessment (HIA). The WHO Gothenburg consensus paper published in 19991 outlined the concept of and a suggested approach for HIA. HIA was of great interest to the public health and policy making community not only because it appeared to provide a structured mechanism to promote healthy public policy, but also because it fitted with the moves towards concepts of joined-up policy.

I searched Medline for articles with the term ‘health impact assessment’ in the abstract to get an indication of the level and nature of interest in HIA over the past decade. Between the years 1998 and 2002 Medline returned 24 hits, while in the second half of the decade (2002 to March 2008) there were 86 hits. This suggests that, within the health literature at least, there is a continued . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Over-optimistic view of potential influence
 

   Have HIAs influenced decision makers?
 

   Use of evidence
 

   What can previous research contribute to HIA?
 

   Improving the utility of HIA
 

   Long-term forecast for HIA: cloudy with possibility of sunny spells
 

   Funding
 

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