13 Jun 2019, Φ EPH conf Marseille: HIA Preconference – contribution “HIA in context” accepted

There is a Pre-conference to the 12th European Public Health Conference: “Health Impact Assessment (HIA) institutionalization and multisectoral collaboration in Europe”. Wednesday 20 November 2019, 09:00 – 18:00, Marseille Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions.

Organised by: European Public Health Association (EUPHA) HIA Section, International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Health Section, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), NRW Centre for Health (LZG.NRW), Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit (WHIASU)/Public Health Wales (PHW), World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.

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For this pre-conference, the following presentation was accepted: “HIA in context” (R. Fehr) [19-10].

From the abstract:

Background: Efforts to institutionalize HIA, and to pursue its further development on multisectoral collaboration, have a track record of being variably successful …

Goal and methods: To explore innovative ways of invigorating HIA by utilizing its diverse relations with other forms of governance-supporting health assessments, as analyzed by the EUPHA “health assessments” working group (involving 10 EUPA sections) …

Results: … HIA’s close connectedness with related approaches, including health reporting, health needs assessment, health technology assessment, health systems performance assessment … as well as evaluative activities. Insights can be grouped as follows:

• Mutual exchange concerning concepts and experiences …
• Improved practice by collaboration and exchange: …
• Teaching and training: …

Discussion: Viewing HIA as one (important) type among the group of “health assessments” fruitfully inspires HIA, both on conceptual and on practice level, and may help to strengthen HIA significantly.