
%0 Journal Article
%A Scott-Samuel, Alex 
%T Health impact assessment: An international perspective
%J New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
%D 2005/08/01
%V 16
%N 8
%P 110-113
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/NB05028
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/NB05028 
%X The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation&#39;s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as &#39;a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population&#39;. Thus HIA is both a prospective approach (looking at potential effects) and an equity-focused one (looking at distributional impacts and attempting to prevent inequities that might arise from the policy under consideration). In this article I will refer only to policies, though HIA does of course cover policies, programs and projects. 
