A new approach to criteria for health risk assessment |
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| Institution: | 1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Impact Assessment, Australia;2. Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;3. Western Australian Department of Health WA, PO Box 8172, Perth Business Centre WA 6849, Australia;1. Departamento de Estadística, I.O. y D.M., Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Oviedo, E-33071 Oviedo, Spain;2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium;1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;2. Institute of Pathology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;3. Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;4. Department of Surgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;5. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;6. Clinical Trials Unit, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;7. Cancer Registry Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a developing component of the overall impact assessment process and as such needs access to procedures that can enable more consistent approaches to the stepwise process that is now generally accepted in both EIA and HIA. The guidelines developed during this project provide a structured process, based on risk assessment procedures which use consequences and likelihood, as a way of ranking risks to adverse health outcomes from activities subjected to HIA or HIA as part of EIA.The aim is to assess the potential for both acute and chronic health outcomes. The consequences component also identifies a series of consequences for the health care system, depicted as expressions of financial expenditure and the capacity of the health system.These more specific health risk assessment characteristics should provide for a broader consideration of health consequences and a more consistent estimation of the adverse health risks of a proposed development at both the scoping and risk assessment stages of the HIA process. |
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