Health impact assessment

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Health impact assessment is an assessment method that is used to estimate the health impacts of a particular event or policy. In Europe, it is most widely used in UK, Finland, and the Netherlands.

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Procedure

Use following methods to assess health impacts based on exposure and exposure-response information:

• Multistage model
• Life table

See also

• The effectiveness of health impact assessment. WHO 2007
• Ihmisiin kohdistuvien vaikutusten arviointi (käsikirja) (in Finnish)
• Ihmisiin kohdistuvien vaikutusten arviointi (sivusto) (in Finnish)
• An article about HIA in Finland
• Health impact assessment suggested to be released in Intarese
• Intarese Health Effects Methodology (D13 Final, July 2007)