Health impact assessment (HIA) collaboration between Finnish and Scottish higher education institutions.

Hirvonen, Ella; Eboh, Winifred O.

Abstract

Health impact assessment (HIA) is relatively new and a rapidly evolving field in many health and social environments globally. HIA emerged in several different forms as it has been applied to a wide range of issues in diverse social, health and policy plans, projects or programs in different settings for example in fields like urban planning and local government projects. It also informs decision-making which deal with conflicts within an ever changing political climate taking into account the stakeholders views.

Citation

HIRVONEN, E. and EBOH, W.O. 2015. Health impact assessment (HIA) collaboration between Finnish and Scottish higher education institutions. In Sirkka, A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd UAS Master symposium: full life for all, 8 May 2015, Satakunta, Finland. Pori: Satakunta Unviersity of Applied Sciences [online], paper number A2, pages 14-16. Available from: https://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/89800

• Conference Name: 3rd UAS Master symposium: full life for all
• Conference Location: Satakunta, Finland
• Start Date: May 8, 2015
• End Date: May 8, 2015
• Acceptance Date: May 8, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 8, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Print ISSN: 1457-0718
• Electronic ISSN: 2323-8372
• Publisher: Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
• Pages: 14-16
• Series ISSN: 2323-8372
• ISBN: 9789516331624
• Keywords: Health impact assessment (HIA); Finland; Scotland; Higher education institutions (HEI)
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1704
• Publisher URL: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-633-162-4