What is it about?
Many policies, programmes, plans, and projects have unintended impacts. Impact assessment provides a tool for considering these in advance. Changes can then be made to the design and operation in order to mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive impacts. Common examples include environmental, social, and health impacts. Often, the sectors that own the project are different to the sectors that receive the negative impacts of the project. For example, an irrigation scheme in the tropics may be owned by the agricultural sector. The irrigation scheme may encourage the proliferation of mosquitoes that transmit disease. The impacts are received by the health sector. One of the challenges in health impact assessment is finding a way for two or more sectors to collaborate on solving the problem. This challenge is referred to as intersectoral collaboration. The chapter describes the challenge and some of the solutions that have been proposed.
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Why is it important?
The authors have obtained experience of the challenge of intersectoral collaboration over many years.
Perspectives
The chapter was written for an audience of mosquito borne disease specialists. However, the general principles discussed apply in all sectors and for all health challenges.
Martin Birley
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This page is a summary of: 10. Health impact assessment: a tool for intersectoral collaboration, February 2021, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-895-7_10.
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