Question

A health impact assessment (HIA), described in Chapter 4 of your textbook, is a process for describing and estimating the effects a proposed project or policy may have on the health of a population. For this assignment, imagine you asked asked to conduct a HIA for a proposed waste management facility in your community.

In a paper of 1,250-1,500-words address the following questions and issues:

1. Provide an overview and description of the stages of an health impact assessment. How is it different from other forms of assessment, such as an environmental impact assessment or a community health assessment?
2. What information would you need about the proposed project?
3. What information would you need about the community to understand the potential health effects?
4. What recommendations would you propose to promote positive health effects? What recommendations would you propose to mitigate adverse health effects?
5. Which decision makers would need this information? Why?

You are required to use a minimum of five additional references in your paper.

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Answer 1

Answer :

Health impact assessments : it is defined as it is a combination of proceedures, some methods and and tools and instruments used by a policy or program and evaluate the potential effects on health of the population And distribution of those effects with in the population.

Stages of health impact assessment :

1. Screening : in screening they will assess the health impact assessment is required or not appropriate or not.

2. Scoping : in these they will set the tools and parameters to do health impact assessment.

3. Identification : here the identification of population data in order to identify the population health impacts.

4. Assessment : what ever the information is collected by population, they will critically analyse, and prearitize the clients health impacts.

5. Decision taking and recommendations : they will make the decisions to implement on health impact assessment findings.

6. Evaluation and follow up :

At last evaluate the effective health impact assessment plans and follow up it through effective health impact management plans.

Environment impact assessment is involved institutional capacity, stakeholders capacity and believes and attitudes of an employees in the organization , corporate changes and scientific changes etc. That means regarding how the environment in an organization.

But in health impact assessment is regarding health status of an population.

Q. No 2. Answer :

Regarding waste management information we need in proposed project, because here health impact assessment for a proposed waste management facility in our community.

* what type of waste is producing in our community area, and whether it is hazardous or not we need to know.

* and how it is impacting on health.

These information should be need about this proposed project.

Q. No 3. Answer :

* potential health effects due to inappropriate waste disposal infections dues to the infectious waste, injuries due to the shorp instruments, cancers due to the chemical substances. And also inhalation injuries to the poisonous substances.

* so which waste may cause, what type of health impacts these all we need to educate the population.

* and we need to whether the community is maintaining waste management properly, the people who are risk to get health impact we must need to collect information.

Q. No 4. Answer :

To promotion of positive health effects :

* health education regarding proper hygiene and protection.

* appropriate disposal of waste.

* good nutritious diet.

* by improving health care services.

* by providing psychological and emotional support.

* by education regarding healthy lifestyle habits.

Through this recommendations promot the positive health.

Recommendations to mitigate adverse health effects :

* by education regarding appropriate waste disposal and it's management.

* by using personal protective equipments while disposing and managing the waste.

* by appropriate selection of an individual while doing health impact assessment.

* by correct implementation of policies and interventions we can reduces the health adverse effects on population.