scholarly journals Health Impact Assessment of a UK Digital Health Service

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Heather Wright ◽  
Irfan Ghani ◽  
John Kemm ◽  
Jayne Parry
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
The West ◽  
Current Form ◽  
West Midlands

A new online digital health service (DHS) was developed for the West Midlands, UK, and provides information on health, health care services and on professional development opportunities. This study is a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the DHS to assess potential impacts on health and health inequalities and make recommendations to decision makers to enhance positive health impacts, reduce negative impacts and consider mitigation. There was no evidence from the HIA to indicate that the DHS in its current form would have any potential impact on the health and wellbeing of people in the West Midlands and on health inequalities.

scholarly journals Transport policy and health inequalities: a health impact assessment of Edinburgh's transport policy

Public Health ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Gorman ◽  
M.J Douglas ◽  
L Conway ◽  
P Noble ◽  
P Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Transport Policy

Equity-focused health impact assessment: A tool to assist policy makers in addressing health inequalities

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 772-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Simpson ◽  
Mary Mahoney ◽  
Elizabeth Harris ◽  
Rosemary Aldrich ◽  
Jenny Stewart-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Policy Makers

scholarly journals Reducing health inequalities: the use of Health Impact Assessment on Rural Areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Sanz Tolosana
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Care Disparities ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Predictive Tool ◽  
Service Redesign

Health is greatly influenced by social, economic and political determinants. Accordingly, decisions influencing people's health do not concern only health services or 'health policies', but decisions in many different policy areas have their influence on these health determinants. Health Impact assessment (HIA) is a predictive tool to support decisions in policy-making. The ultimate goal of this framework is to maximize health gains and, as far as possible, to reduce health inequalities. HIA presents a commitment to ensure that the rural dimension is routinely considered as part of the making and implementing of policy. The aim of this paper is to review the use of HIA on rural areas. Conclusions: HIA shows its great potential to contribute to local authority decision making. The use of HIA was identified in 2 key areas: strategic planning (sustainable development, EU Common Agricultural Policy, Federal Farm Bill, land-use planning work); and in specific smaller scale projects (rural health service redesign proposal, accessing healthy food, transport, health care disparities, etc.).

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