[Health impact assessment methods and practice: state of the art and necessary developments].
Health impact assessment (HIA) is a multidisciplinary tool aimed at assessing the effects of policies, programs and projects on health. It comprises five phases: screening, scoping, appraisal, reporting and monitoring. A review of the literature was performed on the subject which allowed us to describe good practices for each phase and show that the method is applied in a heterogeneous manner. Despite the correct application of the tool, especially of appraisal and reporting, the evaluation phase should be more widely used.
Istituto di Igiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. bruno_stefania@rm.unicatt.it
Stefania
S
Bruno
Chiara
C
de Waure
Maria Lucia
ML
Specchia
Lamberto
L
Manzoli
Giorgio
G
Liguori
Roberta
R
Siliquini
Walter
W
Ricciardi
D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards