
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scott-Samuel, Alex 
T1  - Health impact assessment: An international perspective
JF  - New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
JO  - NSW Public Health Bull.
Y1  - 2005
VL  - 16
IS  - 8
SP  - 110
EP  - 113
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/NB05028 
N2  - The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation&#39;s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as &#39;a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population&#39;. Thus HIA is both a prospective approach (looking at potential effects) and an equity-focused one (looking at distributional impacts and attempting to prevent inequities that might arise from the policy under consideration). In this article I will refer only to policies, though HIA does of course cover policies, programs and projects. 
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