SGLK13017U NOT offered summer 2016 - Health Impact Assessment in Development Planning and Disaster Management

By the end of the course participants will:

Knowledge:

• Have a shared understanding of the development planning process in a country, and the role of different decision makers in different phases of the process
• Have gained knowledge of the entry points for health into the development project cycle phases and the disaster risk management (DRM) cycle
• Have expanded their knowledge on the concept, method and procedures of health impact assessment (HIA) based on common best practices and research based evidence

Skills

• Be able to carry out a rapid review of development proposals and DRM strategies for their potential impact on public health, with special reference to vulnerable communities
• Be able to apply screening criteria that will support the decision making whether or not a full HIA should be commissioned;
• Be able to decide, for those development proposals and DRM strategies screened-in for a full HIA, on the parameters that set the temporal and spatial boundaries for the HIA
• Be able to establish a set of Terms of Reference for an HIA consultant (team) – (scoping)

Competences

• Be able to identify critical health issues associated with development proposals and DRM strategies and the vulnerable groups affected by them
• Be able to decide on a synthetic outcome of the screening and scoping exercise that will form the basis for the formulation of HIA Terms of Reference.
• Be able to make a considered judgement of the technical soundness, social acceptability and economic feasibility of the recommended health intervention measures in an HIA;
• Be able to decide on the optimal institutional arrangements that support intersectoral action for the implementation of a Public Health Management Plan
• Be able to give detailed consideration to the monitoring requirements during development project cycles and DRM stages