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Development of health impact assessment in the Netherlands

Development of health impact assessment in the Netherlands

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This chapter discusses the development of health impact assessment (HIA) in The Netherlands. HIA in The Netherlands began in the early 1990s and developed along two different lines: one shaped by the public health approach and the other stemming from the environmental field. Public health-based HIA evolved according to the paradigm presented by the Lalonde model of health. The HIAs mainly concerned national policies and addressed a variety of policy fields, ranging from tobacco discouragement and health insurance policy to national housing policy and the high-speed rail link. The environmental-based HIA focused on preventing environmentally related health risks and did not consider health in a broader sense. There is no legal obligation for environmental impact assessments to consider health impacts outside an environmental scope. If a first screening of the planned activity points to large health impacts or many concerns about potential health effects, a more detailed quantitative health impact assessment should be carried out.

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OrganisatieHogeschool van Amsterdam
Gepubliceerd inHealth impact assessment Pagina's: 141-149
Jaar2012
TypeBoekdeel
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656011.003.0015
TaalEngels

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