22.11.2019, Marseille, European Public Health (EPH) conference: Workshop “Making progress in Health Impact Assessment: from theory to practice” (7.L)

12th European Public Health (EPH) Conference: Building bridges for solidarity and public health – Marseille Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions

Workshop organised by: EUPHA (HIA), EUPHA (ENV); Chair persons: Piedad Martin-Olmedo – Spain, Peter Van Den Hazel – EUPHA (ENV)

Workshop abstract: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue Supplement_4, November 2019, Published: 13 November 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.540

Workshop key messages

• A comprehensive approach to population and human health should be incorporated in the EIA procedure.
• Raise awareness for involving public health sector in addressing population and human health in EIA.

Our presentation:

Health in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Gaining strength from the “Family of health assessments” approach

¹Rainer Fehr, ²Julia Nowacki, ^3,4Piedad Martin-Olmedo, ⁵Thomas Claßen, ⁶Thomas Fischer, ⁴Marco Martuzzi, ^3,5Odile Mekel, ¹University of Bielefeld (Germany), ²WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (Germany), ³HIA-EUPHA, ⁴Andalusian School for Public Health (Spain), ⁵NRW Centre for Health (Germany), ⁶University of Liverpool (UK)

Abstract: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue Supplement_4, November 2019, Published: 13 November 2019,  https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.545

From the abstract: For connecting health-related ‘‘scientific knowledge’’ and ‘‘policy-making’’ with each other, there is a range of approaches, including health reporting, health needs / impact / technology / systems performance assessment as well as evaluative activities … Lessons: The ‘‘family’’ perspective helps to make best use of existing (local) knowledge (which is often embedded in diverse forms of health assessments); and to assure consistent practice across assessments. The inter-relationship of health assessments is a reason to reconsider training courses and to develop more integrated approaches.

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22.11.2019, Marseille: Workshop “Healthy Places” (4.O)

12th European Public Health Conference: Building bridges for solidarity and public health. – Marseille Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions

Workshop format: pitch presentations, limited to 5 slides per presentation.

Our presentation:

Building bridges: Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg

R Fehr 1, A Trojan 2, C Hornberg 1 [19-08]; 1 Fakultät Gesundheitswissenschaften, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, 2 Medizinische Soziologie, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue Supplement_4, November 2019, Published: 13 November 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.320

From the abstract: Issue: … For sustainably securing and promoting human health in the urban setting, a multitude of urban systems, fierce dynamics, and systemic interactions need to be considered. The goal is to provide an integrative view of Sustainable Urban Health, i.e. capturing the “forest” instead of merely the “trees”. … A theory-based Sustainable Urban Health (SUH) approach, starting out from the Human ecology perspective, provides a framework … Methods … As for results, there is a comprehensive account of Hamburg SUH, including history, health status, governance, health care, rehabilitation, prevention and health promotion, “health in all policies…, and current integrative community projects. 100 authors delivered c.70 contributions. Activities around “health” are shown to constitute a remarkable element of urban culture … To take the issue forward in civic society, one venerable Hamburg NGO (founded in 1765) now established a SUH working group. Conclusions: … This “no regrets” approach meets with interest also in civic society. Once it is applied in multiple cities, innovative concepts and efforts can be compared easily, and get locally adjusted, for further strengthening SUH.

Main message 1: Sustainable Urban Health (SUH), based on Human ecology, is an integrative “no regrets” approach and can cooperatively be applied anywhere, informing and guiding professionals and civic society. Main message 2: Even where activities around “health” constitute a remarkable element of urban culture, there is room for improvement, e.g. quality assurance on systems level, and more focus on sustainability.

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20 Nov 2019, Φ Marseille: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) preconference

20.11.2019, Marseille: Pre-conference to the 12th European Public Health Conference – Health Impact Assessment (HIA) institutionalization and multisectoral collaboration in Europe

Marseille Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions; 09:00 – 17:30 h

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.

https://eupha.org/repository/conference/2019/Preconferences/HIA_Pre-conference_Programme_20190913.pdf: … The aims … are to strengthen the knowledge on HIA in Europe, to share experiences in institutionalizing HIA and integrating a broad consideration of health and well-being, the use of HIA in environmental assessments and other impact assessments, as well as sharing the latest research on HIA.

https://ephconference.eu/2019-pre-conference-212:

Opening by the organizers team, Chair: Piedad Martin Olmedo, Vice-President EUPHA HIA; Keynote speech: Challenges and perspectives for health impact assessment development in France (Francoise Jabot, Ana Rivadeneyra, France)

Session 1 – Institutionalization of HIA across Europe results, Chair: Odile Mekel, President EUPHA HIA:

• The use of HIA to support the plan for a cleaner air (Mathilde Pascal, France)
• Institutionalization of HIA: what’s going on in Portugal? (Luciana Costa, Portugal)
• HIA in context (Rainer Fehr, Germany) [19-10] Abstract – From the abstract: … 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. Presentation slides

Session 2 –Using HIA inside and outside the health sector

Session 3 -The role of HIA in achieving Health in All Policies and the SDGs

Session 4 –Integrating HIA in environmental assessments

Open questions and closing comments.