Conditions for a Meaningful Health Impact Assessment for Local Stakeholders: The Example of the Arve Valley in France
| Autor: | Sylvia Medina, Magali Corso, Myriam Blanchard, Jean-Marc Yvon, Perrine De Crouy-Chanel, Mathilde Pascal |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Santé publique France - French National Public Health Agency [Saint-Maurice, France] |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pollution
Atmospheric Science 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] media_common.quotation_subject Air pollution lcsh:QC851-999 010501 environmental sciences Environmental Science (miscellaneous) medicine.disease_cause fine particles 01 natural sciences 11. Sustainability medicine Environmental planning Air quality index ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Scope (project management) mortality 6. Clean water 13. Climate action Action plan [SDE]Environmental Sciences health impact assessment lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie Business Health impact assessment stakeholders involvement |
| Zdroj: | Atmosphere Volume 11 Issue 6 Atmosphere, MDPI 2020, 11 (6), pp.566. ⟨10.3390/atmos11060566⟩ Atmosphere, Vol 11, Iss 566, p 566 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2073-4433 |
| Popis: | This article illustrates how a health impact assessment (HIA) can be used to promote a collaborative discussion among stakeholders as part of a local action plan aimed at improving air quality. We performed a HIA of the mortality impacts of long-term exposure to fine particles PM2.5 in the Arve Valley in France. This narrow valley can experience high levels of pollution mostly during winter. However, local stakeholders expressed strong, contradictory opinions on the associated health impacts. Our HIA helped overcome existing silos and shifted the overriding question from &ldquo Is it true that air pollution kills people?&rdquo to &ldquo What can we do to improve air quality?&rdquo HIAs have proven to be an excellent decision-support tool in many contexts. In addition, they should continue to be useful provided that their scope, specific objectives, choices, calculation assumptions, and limitations are thoroughly explained to all stakeholders and made easily accessible. |
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