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ntegrated Approaches of Health Impact Assessment as a Division of Environmental Assessment in Korea

  • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Abbr : J EIA
  • 2006, 15(5), pp.309-322
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Research Area : Engineering > Environmental Engineering

ImSoon Kim 1 한상욱 1 박주현 2

1광운대학교
2광운전략환경연구소

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ABSTRACT

During the last decade, Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been discussed worldwide asbeing an important tool for the development of healthy public policy. HIA has been advanced as ameans of bringing potential health impacts to the attention of policy makers, particularly in sectorswhere health impacts may not otherwise be considered. HIA, a systematic assessment of potentialhealth impacts of proposed public polices, programs, and projects, offers a means to advancepopulation health by bringing public health research to bear on questions of public policy.In Korea, health-related items under current EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) systemcan only be found in the categories of hygiene and public health. However, environment andpublic health are not adequately connected and also health is underestimated even thoughhealth is an important objective component for the implementation of EnvironmentalAssessments (EA). As a result, health is not well integrated within criteria for investigating theimpacts on environment.This study examines linkages for HIA from the related and relatively well-developed field ofPrior Environmental Review System (PERS) which is similar to SEA and EIA in Korea.

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