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Health Impact Assessment Principles and Practice by Martin Birley ‘I warmly commend this book. Apart from being by far the most useful work on how to operationalize Health Impact Assessment, the book...
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Health Impact Assessment Principles and Practice by Martin Birley ‘This is a very comprehensive overview of Health Impact Assessment from a UK and international perspective and will be most useful for...
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Health Impact Assessment Principles and Practice by Martin Birley ‘This is an excellent handbook on international HIA by one of the pioneers of HIA theory and practice. It has something for new and...
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Health Impact Assessment Principles and Practice by Martin Birley ‘Martin Birley was a pioneer of health impact assessment, working first in low income countries and more recently also in the UK. This...
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‘To many people, Health Impact Assessment is a new concept requiring new skills. A pioneer and global expert in the subject, Dr Birley has been grappling successfully with this challenge for many...
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Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is primarily concerned with the future consequences of plans, proposals and policies on the health of communities. It is a rapidly growing complement to Environmental...
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This was the take-home message from the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) meeting in Porto (2012). The authors were Canter and Ross. There were many more papers on cumulative...
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An important addition to our understanding of the evidence for and causes of health inequality is provided by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book “The Spirit Level: why equality is better...
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The attached paper was prepared for the IAIA 2015 conference in Florence. It reviews 5 models of risk perception from the recent psychology literature. Comments welcome. Abstract Risk perception is an...
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