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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(5):439-440; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn088
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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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The need for strategic health assessment

Michael Joffe

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PF

Correspondence: e-mail: m.joffe@imperial.ac.uk

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Hilary Thomson provides a useful critical review of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). As she says, HIA could in principle provide a structured mechanism to promote healthy public policy outside the healthcare sector, but she is sceptical of its ability to deliver that. She identifies the main issues as the extent to which HIA actually influences practical policy, and the quality of the evidence base that is used to conduct HIA.

She somewhat understates the ability of HIA to influence decision makers, in the short-term by improving the intervention, and in the long-term through raising awareness of health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   An alternative approach: strategic health assessment
 
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