Directory of resources The directory below provides links to
web-accessible resources on impact assessment, with reference to
environment and health, organized into categories of relevance
to policy-making. Policy brief: Impact assessment - bridging
science and decisions Whenever a policy decision is made, it can
be presumed that decision-makers have made an assessment of
potential impacts. But was this process formal or entirely
informal? Was the relevant scientific evidence about environment
and health reviewed publicly and systematically? Impact
assessment is the process link in the chain between evidence and
decision-making. Yet formal impact assessments are not conducted
for many strategic policy decisions. At the project level too,
impact assessment processes may fail to consider health and
environment in a linked and inclusive perspective. More
effective and systematic impact assessment was thus identified
as an important priority for HELI, and for improving environment
and health decision-making overa