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‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World
Policy in all sectors affects health, through multiple pathways and determinants. Health in all policies (HiAP) is an approach that seeks to identify and influence the health and equity impacts of policy decisions, to enhance health benefits and avoid harm. This usually involves the use of health im...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8468680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189468 |
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author | Green, Liz Ashton, Kathryn Bellis, Mark A. Clemens, Timo Douglas, Margaret |
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description | Policy in all sectors affects health, through multiple pathways and determinants. Health in all policies (HiAP) is an approach that seeks to identify and influence the health and equity impacts of policy decisions, to enhance health benefits and avoid harm. This usually involves the use of health impact assessment or health lens analysis. There is growing international experience in these approaches, and some countries have cross-sectoral governance structures that prioritize the assessment of the policies that are most likely to affect health. The fundamental elements of HiAP are inter-sectoral collaboration, policy influence, and holistic consideration of the range of health determinants affected by a policy area or proposal. HiAP requires public health professionals to invest time to build partnerships and engage meaningfully with the sectors affecting the social determinants of health and health equity. With commitment, political will and tools such as the health impact assessment, it provides a powerful approach to integrated policymaking that promotes health, well-being, and equity. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the profile of public health and highlighted the links between health and other policy areas. This paper describes the rationale for, and principles underpinning, HiAP mechanisms, including HIA, experiences, challenges and opportunities for the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-84686802021-09-27 ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World Green, Liz Ashton, Kathryn Bellis, Mark A. Clemens, Timo Douglas, Margaret Int J Environ Res Public Health Viewpoint Policy in all sectors affects health, through multiple pathways and determinants. Health in all policies (HiAP) is an approach that seeks to identify and influence the health and equity impacts of policy decisions, to enhance health benefits and avoid harm. This usually involves the use of health impact assessment or health lens analysis. There is growing international experience in these approaches, and some countries have cross-sectoral governance structures that prioritize the assessment of the policies that are most likely to affect health. The fundamental elements of HiAP are inter-sectoral collaboration, policy influence, and holistic consideration of the range of health determinants affected by a policy area or proposal. HiAP requires public health professionals to invest time to build partnerships and engage meaningfully with the sectors affecting the social determinants of health and health equity. With commitment, political will and tools such as the health impact assessment, it provides a powerful approach to integrated policymaking that promotes health, well-being, and equity. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the profile of public health and highlighted the links between health and other policy areas. This paper describes the rationale for, and principles underpinning, HiAP mechanisms, including HIA, experiences, challenges and opportunities for the future. MDPI 2021-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8468680/ /pubmed/34574390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189468 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Green, Liz Ashton, Kathryn Bellis, Mark A. Clemens, Timo Douglas, Margaret ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title | ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title_full | ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title_fullStr | ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title_short | ‘Health in All Policies’—A Key Driver for Health and Well-Being in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World |
title_sort | ‘health in all policies’—a key driver for health and well-being in a post-covid-19 pandemic world |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8468680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574390 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189468 |
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