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The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory

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  • Harris, Patrick
  • Sainsbury, Peter
  • Kemp, Lynn

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The last decade has seen increased use of health impact assessment (HIA) to influence public policies developed outside the Health sector. HIA has developed as a structured, linear and technical process to incorporate health, broadly defined, into policy. This is potentially incongruent with complex, non-linear and tactical policy making which does not necessarily consider health. HIA research has however not incorporated existing public policy theory to explain practitioners' experiences with HIA and policy. This research, therefore, used public policy theory to explain HIA practitioners' experiences and investigate ‘What is the fit between HIA and public policy?’

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  • Harris, Patrick & Sainsbury, Peter & Kemp, Lynn, 2014. "The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 46-53.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:108:y:2014:i:c:p:46-53
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.033
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