Institutionalising health impact assessment

The New Zealand experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21153613
AutoresRichard Morgan (0000-0001-7934-4911, University of Otago, autor de correspondencia), Richard K Morgan
Año2008
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas2-16
Fecha de publicación2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaImpact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3152/146155108x300547
OpenAlexW1999707019
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas6

This paper reviews the development of health impact assessment (HIA) in New Zealand to reveal factors which inhibited its effective institutionalisation until recently. It considers how differing views of HIA have affected the institutionalisation process, and assesses the longer-term prospects for HIA in policy- and project-level assessments. There is lack of a clear statutory mandate for considering health impacts under the Resource Management Act, although HIA and closely related health risk assessments have been carried out under other legislation, including the Biosecurity Act. Consequently, different understandings of the nature and purpose of HIA have developed, associated with different practitioner communities, often operating in isolation from other practitioners and the wider impact assessment community. The renewed effort to mobilise HIA has emphasised policy-level application in central government; the Ministry for Health now has an HIA Unit, and statutory recognition of the process is promised in the new Public Health Act

Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Occupational Health and Safety Research