Workshop: Equity in Health Impact Assessment
Date: 14 February 2025 | Location: Virtual
Health impact assessment of the environment involves comparing the health impact of different scenarios using a systematic approach. Impacts can be calculated at the full population level, but often the distribution of impacts across the population is important as well. Specifically, the distribution of health impacts across different socioeconomic or ethnic groups is of interest. Differences in health impacts across socio-economic, ethnic, or gender groups can be caused by all elements in the HIA process, including the level of exposure to environmental stressors, the impact of an intervention to reduce environmental exposure, exposure-response functions, or background rates of disease or mortality. Little is known about which factors contribute more to differential impacts across socio-economic groups. For virtually all diseases, background rates of disease and mortality are higher in deprived populations. For the other paths, evidence is less consistent.
The UBPOLICY project addresses health impacts related to outdoor air pollution, noise, green, and heat in urban areas.
Main Organizers: Utrecht University on behalf of WP2 UBDPolicy
- Gerard Hoek (G.Hoek@uu.nl)
- Ulrike Gehring (U.Gehring@uu.nl)
- Xuan Chen (x.chen4@uu.nl)
The aim of the workshop is to discuss
- evidence for the quantification of different pathways for unequal impacts across population groups, including methodological issues
- approaches for including equity in health impact assessment of environmental stressors
To attend the event, please register here.
Program
Each topic will cover 20 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
- 13:00 – 13:10 Introduction to workshop by Gerard Hoek
- 13:10 – 13:40 Equity in exposure by Niklas Hlubek
- 13:40 – 14:10 Equity in interventions by Anna Rosofsky
- 14:10 – 14:40 Equity in exposure-response functions: air pollution by Hans Orru
- 14:40 – 14:50 Coffee Break
- 14:50 – 15:20 Can green space help address health disparities? Emerging evidence from two systematic reviews by Alessandro Rigolon
- 15:20-15:50 Discussion by all speakers and participants
- 15:50 –16:00 Final remarks by Ulrike Gehring
