title: Ranking the effects of urban development projects on social determinants of health: health impact assessment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Health impact assessment (HIA) offer a very logical and interesting approach for those aiming to integrate health issues into planning processes. With a lot of works and plans waiting to be done (e.g., developing and updating plans, counseling planning commissions, cooperation with other organizations), planners find it difficult to prioritize health among a variety of possible issues and solutions they confront.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the present article, first, the list of social determinants of health associated with Chitgar man-made lake was extracted out using a qualitative method and with content analysis approach, and then they were prioritized using analytic hierarchy process.
  
  
  RESULTS
  28 social determinants of health including "intermediary" and "structural" determinants were extracted out. Regarding positive effects of lake on these determinants, "recreational services" and "traffic" received the highest and the lowest weights with 0.895 and 0.638 respectively among structural determinants and with consideration to "construction" option. Furthermore, among intermediary determinants for "construction" option, sub-criteria of both "physical activity" and "air quality" received the final highest weight (0.889) and "pathogenesis" indicated the lowest weight with 0.617. Moreover, lake demonstrated the highest negative effects on "housing" among "structural" determinants which it takes the highest weight (0.476) in "non-construction" option. Additionally, lake had the highest negative effects on "noise pollution" among "intermediary determinants" and it takes the highest weight (0.467) in "non-construction" option.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It has been shown that urban development projects such as green spaces, man-made lakes … have a huge range of effects on community's health, and having not considered these effects by urban planners and mangers is going to confront urban health with many challenges.
authors.affiliation: . shojaee7@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Parisa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shojaei
authors.forename: Masoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karimlou
authors.forename: Jafar
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nouri
authors.forename: Farahnaz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Hosein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Malek Afzali
authors.forename: Ameneh Setareh
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Forouzan
mesh_terms: D004467:Economics; D015438:Health Behavior; D062489:Health Impact Assessment; D007492:Iran; D060106:Lakes; D011788:Quality of Life; D011998:Recreation; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014506:Urban Renewal