Let's Be Clear-Health Impact Assessments or Assessing Health Impacts?

Jinhee Kim¹, Andrew Dannenberg^{2

3}, Fiona Haigh^{4

5}, Ben Harris-Roxas^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Cities Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
³ Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
⁴ Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Jinhee Kim et al. Public Health Rev. 2024.

. 2024 Aug 5:45:1607722.

doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1607722. eCollection 2024.

Jinhee Kim¹, Andrew Dannenberg^{2

3}, Fiona Haigh^{4

5}, Ben Harris-Roxas^{6

7}

¹ Cities Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
³ Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
⁴ Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: decision making; health impact assessment; health risk assessment; policy recommendations; stakeholder engagement.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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