Papers by Alex Scott-Samuel
The Journal of Men's Health & Gender, 2007
2007) 'Women's empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe : an ecological study.... more 2007) 'Women's empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe : an ecological study.', Journal of mens health and gender., 4 (3). pp. 257-265.
Journal of Public Health, 1999
Background Despite the increasing evidence that income inequality causes reductions in life expec... more Background Despite the increasing evidence that income inequality causes reductions in life expectancy in developed countries, this relationship has not been explored in the United Kingdom, where local income data are not routinely available. We have surmounted this problem by employing an ecological design which applies national income data to local mortality and occupational data.
Critical Public Health, 2000
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2001
Critical Public Health, 2009
Bulletin of The World Health Organization, 2007
Public policy decisions in both the social and economic spheres have enormous impact on global pu... more Public policy decisions in both the social and economic spheres have enormous impact on global public health. As a result of this, and of the skewed global distribution of power and resources, health impact assessment (HIA) potentially has a key role to play in foreign policy-making and global public policy-making.
British Medical Journal, 1996
The Health of the Nation, England's strategy for a healthy population, acknowledges explicit... more The Health of the Nation, England's strategy for a healthy population, acknowledges explicitly that many government policies have an impact on health and that their consequences for health need to be assessed and, when appropriate, taken into account. ...
Journal of Public Health, 2000
Background Prospective health impact assessment is a new approach to predicting potential health ... more Background Prospective health impact assessment is a new approach to predicting potential health impacts of policies, programmes or projects. It has been widely recognized that public policies have important impacts on health. In 1997, the Liverpool Public Health Observatory was commissioned to carry out a health impact assessment of the Merseyside Integrated Transport Strategy (MerITS). A secondary aim was to pilot a method for health impact assessment at the strategic level.
Revista Panamericana De Salud Publica-pan American Journal of Public Health, 2002
An early definition of health impact assessment (HIA) described it as" any combination of pr... more An early definition of health impact assessment (HIA) described it as" any combination of procedures or methods by which a proposed policy or program may be judged as to the effect (s) it may have on the health of a population"(1). The World Health Organization's ...
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2003
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