Policy Health Impact Assessment for the European Union
O Mekel, F Haigh, R Fehr, A Scott-Samuel, D Abrahams, A Pennington, L den Broeder, C Doyle, O Metcalfe · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2004 · Heft 09
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Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund und Ziel: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a „combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to it's potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population“ (ECHP, WHO). The Treaty of Amsterdam (1999) made explicit the commitment of the European Union to ensure that human health is protected in the definition and implementation of all Community polices and activities. However there is no accepted methodology for assessing the impacts of EU policies on health within the Community. Therefore th…
