Health impact assessment
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Health impact assessment is a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population.
Source: Gothenburg Consensus Paper, European Centre for Health Policy, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1999.
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