Bungendore health impact assessment: urban development in a rural setting

Andrew J. Gow; Lorraine G. Dubois

doi:10.1071/NB07086

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Bungendore health impact assessment: urban development in a rural setting

Andrew J. Gow ^A ^B and Lorraine G. Dubois ^A

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^A Health Development, Greater Southern Area Health Service

^B Corresponding author. Email: andrew.gow@gsahs.health.nsw.gov.au

NSW Public Health Bulletin 18(10) 164-165 https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07086
Published: 26 September 2007

Abstract

As the majority of the determinants of health are controlled outside the health system, the challenge for promoting health is to find a way of influencing these determinants. Health impact assessment was used in Bungendore, NSW, in an attempt to influence decisions relating to scenarios for urban development. Twelve months after the project was completed, interim evaluation has revealed evidence that the health impact assessment has had a positive effect on preliminary land-use planning work.

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