Quality score: + External validity score: ++ Country: Plan: Outcomes measured: Belfast is a recognised Ireland Draft Air Quality a) Process outcomes: WHO City’. ‘Healthy Management Plan The Council was one (i) Health outcomes considered: Y Setting (eg urban/rural) (AQMP) of the main drivers for (ii) Health Urban the HIA and therefore recommendations this is a good example incorporated in plan: Population: Method of appraisal: of the value that Y (size , characteristics…) HIA can offer in the (iii) Evidence of Four Air Quality HIA development of plans implemented: NR Management in or policies. (iv) Post-adoption Belfast. evaluation: NR The City Council was aware that measures b) Specific issues: (i) Physical activity: NR proposed by other (ii) Mental wellbeing: NR councils during the (iii) Air / noise quality etc: development of Air Y Quality Action Plans (iv) Unintentional injury: were not always NR effective and in some (v) Other health: NR cases could actually Specify: contribute to negative impacts. c) Knowledge outcome: Planners health Effectiveness knowledge or skills: NR General: it was too d) Other outcome: early to tell, as the Y Specify: process had not reached its conclusion, and made without access to all the facts,
Quality score: + External validity score: ++ Country: Ireland Setting (eg urban/rural) Urban Population: (size , characteristics…) Four Air Quality Management in Belfast. Plan: Draft Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) Method of appraisal: HIA Outcomes measured: a) Process outcomes: (i) Health outcomes considered: Y (ii) Health recommendations incorporated in plan: Y (iii) Evidence of implemented: NR (iv) Post-adoption evaluation: NR b) Specific issues: (i) Physical activity: NR (ii) Mental wellbeing: NR (iii) Air / noise quality etc: Y (iv) Unintentional injury: NR (v) Other health: NR Specify: c) Knowledge outcome: Planners health knowledge or skills: NR d) Other outcome: Y Specify: Belfast is a recognised WHO ‘Healthy City’. The Council was one of the main drivers for the HIA and therefore this is a good example of the value that HIA can offer in the development of plans or policies. The City Council was aware that measures proposed by other councils during the development of Air Quality Action Plans were not always effective and in some cases could actually contribute to negative impacts. Effectiveness General: it was too early to tell, as the process had not reached its conclusion, and made without access to all the facts,
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