Health Impact Assessment

West Midlands public Health Observatory on behalf of APHO Access to HIA related information resources The Health Impact Assessment Gateway (HIA Gateway) is a central database providing access to International HIA related information resources. This resour ...

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Prioritising health in policy and project appraisal: Are HIAs used for policy in Ireland? Research findings

O'Mullane, M. Health Impact Assessment and Policy Presentation outlining results from PhD research into HIA and policy in Ireland This event discussed health in Impact Assessments particularly Environmental Impact Assessment and Stategic Environmenta ...

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Health Impact Assessment of Traffic and Transport in Ballyfermot

Eastern Regional Health Authority Health Impact Assessment Steering a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to Fruition' 6th UK and Ireland HIA Conference, Birmingham. This resource is part of the Public Health Advocacy Website Collection. Health Inequaliti ...

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Health Impact Assessment Presentation

10.14655/20090016 Lavin, T., Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment This presentation provided an overview of Health Impact Assessment Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment http://www.publichealth.ie/files/file/HIA_Teresa%20L ...

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Health Impact Assessment Guidance (2006)

Metcalfe, O., Higgins, C., Doyle, C., Institute of Public Health in Ireland; McDowell, S., Investing for Health Team, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Health Impact Assessment This document describes Health Impact Assessment (HIA) a ...

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Health Impact Assessment- A practical guidance manual

Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment This document describes Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and the steps involved in HIA. It gives advice based on the experience of HIA practitioners and provides tools to help carry out these s ...

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A review package for Health Impact Assessment of development projects

Mette Winge Fredsgaar, Ben Cave and Alan Bond, Bencave Associates Health impact assessment, Management Published by Ben Cave Associates, 2009 This review package is intended to enable a commissioner or reviewer of an HIA report to reach an opinion as to t ...

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Delivering Healthy Communities

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) COMMUNITY, DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENT, LIFESTYLE, NEIGHBOURHOOD, PARTNERSHIP WORKING, SAFETY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Published by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), June 2009 This document ...

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Improving the use of evidence in health impact assessment

Mindell, J., Biddulph, J., Taylor, L., Lock, K., Boaz, A., Joffef, M. and Curtisg, S. DECISION MAKING, EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE, HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT, POLICY FORMULATION, REVIEW Published in the Bulletin of the WHO, December 2009 This evidence review g ...

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Practical lessons for dealing with inequalities in health impact assessment

This publication is a companion to Addressing inequalities through health impact assessment (Taylor et al., 2003a), which described what a focus on inequalities could achieve, offered case study examples, and outlined promising practice. This bulletin dis ...

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Proposed Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax: Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

5.6.2013 Proposed Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Click here to download Background to the Health Impact Assessment on Sugar Sweetened Drink PDF 49KB Click here to download Proposed Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax: Health Impact As ...

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Health Impact Assessment Tool for forming recommendations

10.14655/20090031 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment The forming recommendation tool provides a template to record the recommendations and how they will be implemented by the decision-maker Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Asse ...

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Health Impact Assessment Reviewing the implementation of HIA recommendations

10.14655/20090033 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment This tool provides a template to monitor the implementation of the HIA recommendations by identified decision-makers Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment ...

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HIA Forum, HIA: A tool to support healthier communities (September 2009)

10.14655/20090015 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment The HIA Forum provides an opportunity for those with an interest in HIA to meet, share experiences, hear about new developments and consider how to progress HIA. 2009 HIA For ...

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Health Impact Assessment

10.14655/20090018 Higgins, C., Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment This presentation provided an overview of Health Impact Assessment Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment http://www.publichealth.ie/files/file/HIA%20Forum% ...

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Creating healthier communities

10.14655/20090019 Lavin, T., Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment, Built environment Presentation which considers how HIA can be used as a tool to support healthier communities Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment ...

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Health Impact Assessment contributing to Healthy Public Policy

10.14655/20090021 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment Published by Public Health, April 2009 IPH recently coordinated and was guest editor for a minisymposium on Health Impact Assessment for the journal, Public Health. Three ari ...

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Health Impact Assessment Screening tool

10.14655/20090023 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment The screening tool provides assistance to those conducting HIA to quickly and systematically establish whether a particular policy, programme or project has an impact on heal ...

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Health Impact Assessment Scoping tool

10.14655/20090025 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment The scoping tool provides a framework for the development of the HIA workplan Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment http://www.publichealth.ie/files/file/FinalIPH%20HIA ...

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Health Impact Assessment Policy analysis tool

10.14655/20090026 Institute of Public Health in Ireland Health Impact Assessment The policy analysis tool provides a framework to review government and other relevant agency policy related to the proposal. Knowledge Exchange Health Impact Assessment ...

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18 October 2018

Self-harm in Irish Prisons 2017

New data on self-harm in Irish prisons

There were 223 episodes of self-harm involving 138 individuals recorded in Irish prisons last year, according to a new report.

The first report on episodes of self-harm recorded in Irish Prisons found the annual person-based rate of self-harm was 4 per 100 prisoners. The rate of self-harm was higher among female prisoners and those on remand. In 2017, there were four episodes of self-harm (2% of all self-harm episodes) which resulted in the loss of life.

You can read the report here

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26 September 2018

View the presentations from IPH’s Childhood Obesity Symposium

‘Tackling childhood obesity: the economic and ethical imperatives’ was held in Belfast on 24 September 2018.

The aim of the event was to present recent findings about the lifetime costs of childhood obesity in Northern Ireland and the marketing of food to children in a digital world. It provided a platform to discuss the implications for tackling childhood obesity in Northern Ireland.

To view the presentations from the event, click here

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7 September 2018

Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Collective Leadership Strategy was launched in October 2017

The Strategy seeks to create a health and social care leadership community in which all take responsibility for nurturing cultures of high quality, continually improving, compassionate care and support.

The Department of Health in Northern Ireland is seeking your views in developing a core set of values and associated behaviours for Health and Social Care.

The questionnaire can be accessed here and is open until 28 September 2018

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29 August 2018

Fit to Fly report recommends action to reduce alcohol-related harm occurring in airports and aeroplanes

A new report by the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) and the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (EUROCARE) has made recommendations to address alcohol-related harm occurring in airports and aeroplanes. The report recommended:

Better licensing regimes in airports, including, in the UK, the application of the Licensing Act so that premises after security are required to follow the same legislation as premises in the rest of the country
Alcohol consumption at airports to be restricted to bars and restaurants, with alcohol bought at duty-free put in sealed containers and picked up by passengers at the gate or put directly into the hold of the aircraft.
Empowerment of local police forces at landing airports through the application of the Montreal Protocol.

The report can be found here

Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS)

European Alcohol Policy Alliance (EUROCARE)

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27 August 2018

IPH would like to invite you to its upcoming Obesity Symposium

‘Tackling childhood obesity: the economic and ethical imperatives’ will be held in the Clayton Hotel Belfast on 24 September at 10.30am.

The aim of the event is:

To present recent findings about the lifetime costs of childhood obesity in Northern Ireland and the marketing of food to children in a digital world
To discuss the implications for tackling childhood obesity in Northern Ireland

For more details and to register for the event, click here

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24 August 2018

International Healthy Cities Conference to be held in Belfast in 1-4 October 2018

Thousands of cities worldwide are part of the Healthy Cities movement. Healthy Cities is a global movement working to put health high on the social, economic and political agenda of city governments.

This Conference, which takes place every 5 years, offers the chance for cities to engage with their international counterparts and benefit from the Network’s experience. The 4-day programme in Belfast will be packed with opportunities to learn from the work of healthy cities globally, bringing together politicians and key decision-makers from within cities, as well as technical experts.

To find out more, click here

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20 August 2018

UK National Screening Committee (NSC) recommends that bowel cancer screening in England should start 10 years earlier at age 50.

Bowel cancer screening in England should in future start 10 years earlier at age 50, the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) has recommended. Research shows that screening people at a younger age would allow more bowel cancers to be detected at an earlier stage, when treatment is likely to more effective and survival chances improved. For more info click here

Currently; in the Republic of Ireland, population screening (involving people without symptoms) is offered to people aged 60 - 69 years and, in Northern Ireland, is offered to people aged 60 - 74 years

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16 August 2018

August edition of the All-Island Obesity Forum News

The August issue of the Obesity Forum’s Newsletter includes a look at the recently released Irish Sports Policy 2018 – 2027. It also highlights Reports, Research, upcoming events and news in the area of obesity.

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14 August 2018

DoH publishes its 10-year Sláintecare Implementation StrategySláintecare is the Irish government’s reformation of Ireland’s health and social care system. The strategy proposes a fundamental shift, vision and strategic plan for the future direction of the Irish health and social care services.The Implementation Strategy, launched late last week, sets out a ten year plan for reform with wide ranging recommendations covering five key areas:

Population Health Profiling
Entitlements and Access
Integrated Care
Funding
Implementation.

You can download the implementation strategy here

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8 August 2018

HSE and Donegal hosting a ‘Having a say in Mental Health Services’ Coffee Morning in Letterkenny

The HSE in collaboration with The Donegal Local Forum are hosting a local mental health engagement event on Monday 13th August. This will be in the form of a coffee morning and information session.

The aim is to promote Mental Health Engagement and its collaborative work through the local forum with people with experience of using mental health services and those who support them. The HSE wish to invite all with an interest in Mental Health, including, service users, family members, carers supporters and staff.

It will take place at Motley Crow, Anti-café, Railway House, Ramelton Road, Letterkenny on Monday 13th August (11am to 1pm).

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