„Family“ of health-related impact assessments – opportunities to support rational policy-making

Background: Internationally, a host of Impact Assessments (IAs) has emerged to provide appraisal of (future, concurrent, or past) impacts of policies, plans, programs, and projects. Many of such IAs are related to human health. An initiative was started in 2009 to study inter-relationships among different members of the „family“ of health-related IAs, especially in order to harness synergies. Methods and Materials: Based on expert judgement and literature searches, this paper looks at seven types of IA with major relations to human health: Health IA (HIA), Environmental IA (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessme…