Impact assessment in the post-COVID-19 world: the growing role of health impact assessment

Mirko S. Winkler, Adithya Pradyumna, Francesca Viliani and Astrid M. Knoblauch

Chapter 3 in Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, 2022, pp 47-65 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Health impact assessment (HIA) applies a systematic process that identifies appropriate actions to avoid or mitigate health risks and promote health opportunities of a project, programme, plan, policy or strategy. At the core of this chapter is a qualitative study that involved representatives from different sectors to explore how disease outbreaks have been addressed in past HIA and how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will affect future HIA practice. The findings reveal that outbreak potential was inadequately considered pre-COVID-19, and that HIA is perceived to gain in importance in a post-COVID-19 world. However, this is coupled with the need for advocacy towards adoption of HIA and better recognition of public health in decision-making processes in general. For promoting sustainable development in the context of the manifold global challenges of the 21st century, most of which have serious public health implications, integrated impact assessments will have an important role to play.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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