Complexity and rigour in assessing the health dimensions of sectoral policies and programmes.
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Societies benefit in numerous ways from new infrastructure and technological innovations in sectors such as agriculture energy and transportation. Systematic assessment of the magnitude and distribution of the health effects of sectoral policies and programmes provides a powerful tool for increasing their contributions to health and welfare of societies. Attention to mediated causal relations and multi-causality not only results in more rigorous health effect assessment but also would generate a larger menu of interventions across layers of causality. With increased awareness of the role of health in inducing economic and social development a window of opportunity exists to make such assessments a visible and permanent part of policy analysis and programme design. This can be successful only if our methods and tools are chosen based not on their titles but on their suitability for the analytical problems that we face. (excerpt)
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Author: Majid Ezzati
Institution: Resources For The Future
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2150674262