HIA's strength lies in providing a tool which enables informed policy decisions to be made based on a valid assessment of their potential health impacts, at the same time adding health awareness to policy making at every level. In the longer term it has the potential to make concern for improving public health the norm and a routine part of all public policy development.
Author(s): Barnes, Ruth, Scott-Samuel, Alex Originator(s): Department of Public Health at the University of Liverpool
Resource added in:
27/12/2000
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English
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