Integrating health impact assessment with the policy process : lessons and experiences from around the world / edited by Monica O'Mullane, lecturer, Department of Health, Faculty of Health Care and Social Work (Fakulta Zdravotníctva a Sociálnej Práce), Trnava University (Trnavská Univerzita), Trnava, Slovakia.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First edition.

Health impact assessment : the conceptual roots ; Health impact assessment adn the policy process / Monica O'Mullane -- The impact of health impact assessment on the policy-making process in Ireland : Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland / Claire Higgins, Owen Metcalfe, and Noëlle Cotter -- Health impact assessment implementation and public health policy systems in Denmark and Slovakia / Gabriel Guliš and Jana Kollárová -- The Ruhr metropolitan area in Germany : rapid health impact assessment of novel spatial planning / Rainer Fehr -- Health impact assessment and its role in shaping government policy-making : the use of health impact assessment at national policy level in England / Salim Vohra, Gifty Amo-Danso, and Judith Ball -- Health impact assessment in the USA : practice, policy, and legal underpinnings / Catherine L. Ross and Arthi Rao -- 'Learning by doing' : building workforce capacity to undertake health impact assessment : an Australian case study / Elizabeth Harris [and 3 others] -- Health impact assessment in local government : a New Zealand case study / Louise Signal, Matthew Soeberg, and Robert Quigley -- A decade of health impact assessment development in Thailand : from cases to constitution / Decharut Sukkumnoed -- From instrument towards a health in all policies programme for inter-sectoral decision support : health impact assessment in The Netherlands / Marleen Bekker [and 3 others] -- Health in impact assessment and emerging challenges in India / Ben Cave [and 4 others] -- Realities and opportunities for health impact assessment in Africa / Francesca Viliani and Edith Essie Clarke -- Implementing and institutionalizing health impact assessment in Spain : challenges and opportunities / Piedad Martín-Olmedo -- Integrating health into impact assessments in Scotland / Margaret Douglas, Susie Palmer, and Martin Higgins -- Health impact assessment in Colorado : a tool used to inform decision-making / Karen Roof -- Lessons learned from health impact assessment experience around the world : where to next? / Monica O'Mullane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.