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Environment and Health: linking science with policy a personal perspective

20/09/2007. Talk at SDRN. 2. Brief overview. In the early 1990s ? ExternEHealth Impact Assessment (HIA) of the health effects of outdoor air pollution; Still a major interest Wider issues of environment and health (E

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Environment and Health: linking science with policy a personal perspective

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    1. Environment and Health: linking science with policy – a personal perspective Fintan Hurley, IOM Edinburgh fintan.hurley@iom-world.org

    2. 20/09/2007 Talk at SDRN 2 Brief overview In the early 1990s – ExternE Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the health effects of outdoor air pollution; Still a major interest Wider issues of environment and health (E&H) What can we quantify? Where we’ve got to, and where we’re going, with quantifying the links between environment, exposure and health, To help link scientific evidence with policy development. How does this link with sustainable development? SD not a foreground concept in what I have been doing Affects the kinds of policies I have been involved in assessing Climate change has changed fundamentally the relationship between SD and E&H.

    3. 20/09/2007 Talk at SDRN 3 What is Health Impact Assessment?

    4. 20/09/2007 Talk at SDRN 4 ExternE: 1990 - 2005 I became involved 1991-2 in ExternE, a European Commission project Driven by economics and economists, its aim was to assess ‘externalities’ i.e. what were the costs of energy (electricity; later transport) that were not incorporated into the price Linked with principle that the polluter pays (c/f SD?) Unusually for an economics project, ExternE set out to do good work on estimating physical impacts, as input into external costs. The public health effects of combustion air pollutants, especially particulate matter (PM), was the dominant ‘well-quantified’ effect; Climate change effects were a dominant, poorly quantified, effect. Series of reports: ExternE (1995), Vols 1-6. Updates and extensions in later years Reports available on http://www.externe.info/

    5. 20/09/2007 Talk at SDRN 5 Health Impact Assessment Health Impact Assessment (HIA): 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. WHO/ECHP, 1999, Gothenburg Consensus Paper HIA is one important bridge between science and policy. Use of HIA is well established in the UK and more generally in Europe

    6. 20/09/2007 Talk at SDRN 6 Components of air pollution HIA

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