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Descriptor English: Health Impact Assessment
Descriptor Spanish: Evaluación del Impacto en la Salud
Descriptor evaluación del impacto sobre la salud
Scope note: Combinación de procedimientos, métodos y herramientas mediante los cuales se juzgan políticas, programas o proyectos con respecto a sus efectos potenciales sobre la salud de una población y la distribución de dichos efectos en dicha población.
Descriptor Portuguese: Avaliação do Impacto na Saúde
Descriptor French: Évaluation des impacts sur la santé
Entry term(s): Assessment, Health Impact
Assessments, Health Impact
Health Impact Assessments
Impact Assessment, Health
Impact Assessments, Health
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.237
N03.349.380.210.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062489
Scope note: Combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2013
History Note: 2013
DeCS ID: 55050
Unique ID: D062489
NLM Classification: W 84.4
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03
Health Impact Assessment - Preferred
Concept UI M0568497
Scope note Combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, 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.
Preferred term Health Impact Assessment
Entry term(s) Assessment, Health Impact
Assessments, Health Impact
Health Impact Assessments
Impact Assessment, Health
Impact Assessments, Health



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