Engaging communities to tackle anti-social behaviour: a health impact assessment of a citizens' jury.
OBJECTIVE
To carry out a health impact assessment (HIA) of the Netherley Valley Citizens' Jury that was set up to develop recommendations for how anti-social behaviour should be addressed in their community.


METHODS
Concurrent HIA based on the Merseyside Guidelines for HIA and the European Policy HIA Guidelines.


METHODS
Literature reviews, community profiling, and interviews and workshops with stakeholders and key informants were undertaken.


RESULTS
A wide range of positive and negative impacts were identified, and 20 recommendations were developed to suggest ways of maximizing the potential positive impacts on health and wellbeing and minimizing the negative impacts.


CONCLUSIONS
This HIA provided a unique opportunity to compare predicted and actual health impacts, which illustrates the importance of assessing the potential impacts of processes as well as intended outcomes. It also highlighted some of the potential risks involved in engaging with communities, and reinforced the value of assessing the potential impacts on health of policies, programmes and projects that may intuitively appear to be beneficial to all involved.
Haigh
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IMPACT (International Health Impact Assessment Consortium), Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK. fiona.haigh@liverpool.ac.uk
Scott-Samuel
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D001519:Behavior; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*