Guía para la Evaluación Rápida de Impacto en Salud en la Elaboración de Normativas
The Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is “a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, program or project can be evaluated based on its potential effects on the health of the population and its distribution in said population”as defined in the Gothenburg Consensus document.
In turn, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”. But health is not only influenced by health policies, but is related to a series of aspects known as Social Determinants of Health, that is, the circumstances in which people are born, grow, work, live and age. The determinants can generate health inequalities both between countries and within the same population, for example, between people with a different economic level. The EIS can be useful for reduce these health inequalitiesincorporating the perspective of health equity in the design and development of all public administration policies and interventions, so as to improve their impact on population health.
The purpose of this guide is to contribute to ensuring that all regulations that are developed within the Central Government contain a prior report on their impact on healthas stated in the General Public Health Law (article 35). In this way, the proposal Rapid Health Impact Assessment (ERIS) that the guide presents is intended to serve as a support tool in the decision-making process of public administration and help identify the potential health impacts that these decisions may generate.
As the Guide proposes a quick HIA approach, the procedures have been simplified. evaluation phases to make the process more dynamic and accessible. Thus, before completing the tool, the Guide recommends carrying out the following actions:
- Form the Evaluation Group (EG)
- Screening
- schedule tasks
- Document review
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| Phases of the rapid EIS. (Extracted from the Guide) |
The guide is divided into two parts. The first contains a manual to apply the ERIS tool in which it presents it, develops its application, its different phases and the instructions to complete it. In the second part the tool is presented as such. In addition, it includes an annex with a bibliography and another with the legislative framework of the EIS.
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