Reducing health inequalities

Health is greatly influenced by social, economic and political determinants. Accordingly, decisions influencing people's health do not concern only health services or 'health policies', but decisions in many different policy areas have their influence on these health determinants. Health Impact assessment (HIA) is a predictive tool to support decisions in policy-making. The ultimate goal of this framework is to maximize health gains and, as far as possible, to reduce health inequalities. HIA presents a commitment to ensure that the rural dimension is routinely considered as part of the making and implementing of policy. The aim of this paper is to review the use of HIA on rural areas. Conclusions: HIA shows its great potential to contribute to local authority decision making. The use of HIA was identified in 2 key areas: strategic planning (sustainable development, EU Common Agricultural Policy, Federal Farm Bill, land-use planning work); and in specific smaller scale projects (rural health service redesign proposal, accessing healthy food, transport, health care disparities, etc

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Health care · Health equity · Health impact assessment · Inequality · Political science · Public economics · Public health · Rural area · Rural health · Scale (ratio) · Social determinants of health · Work (physics) · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education · Health Policy

• Examining rural health equity and impact through the translational science benefits model

  Open Access•Maggie Padek, Rebecca Butcher et al.•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

  Incluir item

• Health Equity Impact Assessment (Heia) reporting tool

  Open Access•Alireza Olyaeemanesh, Amirhossein Takian et al.•International Journal for Equity…•2023

  Incluir item

• Reducing health inequalities

  Open Access•Elvira Sanz Tolosana•Saúde e Sociedade•2015

  Incluir item

• Crisis, austeridad y áreas rurales

  Open Access•Elvira Sanz Tolosana•Saúde e Sociedade•2018

  Incluir item

• The Social Basis of Disparities in Health

  F Diderichsen, Timothy Evans et al.•Challenging Inequities in Health•2001

  Incluir item

• Achieving health equity

  Open Access•Michael Marmot•The Lancet•2007

  Incluir item

• The introduction of health impact assessment in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network

  Open Access•Erica Ison•Health Promotion International•2009

  Incluir item

• Humboldt County General Plan Update Health Impact Assessment

  Open Access•Emily Celia Harris, Ann Lindsay et al.•Environmental Justice•2009

  Incluir item

• Conducting an HIA of the effect of accession to the European Union on national agriculture and food policy in Slovenia

  Open Access•Keyaira Lock, Karen Lock et al.•Environmental Impact Assessment…•2004

  Incluir item

• Health impact assessment--theory into practice

  Alex Scott-Samuel•Journal of Epidemiology and…•1998

  Incluir item

• Growing the Field of Health Impact Assessment in the United States

  Andrew L Dannenberg, Rajiv Bhatia et al.•American Journal of Public Health•2006

  Incluir item

• Reducing health inequalities

  Open Access•Elvira Sanz Tolosana•Saúde e Sociedade•2015

  Incluir item

• Developing public sociology through health impact assessment

  Open Access•Eva Elliott, Gareth Williams•Sociology of Health & Illness•2008

  Incluir item