Health impact assessment in the uk planning system: The possibilities and limits of community engagement

摘要

This paper explores the use of health impact assessment (HIA) as a means of facilitating community engagement in spatial planning. The paper discusses the background to the development of HIA as a tool for assessing the likely impact of policies and wider changes on health with a view to building those into planning and decisionmaking, and describes the evolution of HIA into more participatory forms. It then goes on to describe a casestudy of plans for a waste incinerator in an inner-city area in the UK, where HIA was used in response to community concerns about the development as a means of building in the views of local people to the decision-making.