Having completed the course the student is able to describe one’s own country’s primary health care system in order to orientate oneself with health impact assessment and describe the background theory and main concepts related to health impact assessment. This completeness gives you tools how to apply the gained knowledge in order to construct an example of a health impact assessment, sort out and report the different health impact assessment types, stages, and possibilities of using it and estimate the meaning and value of health impact pre-assessment from the point of view of the individual, family and society in different cultures.

Course details

  • principles and premises
  • essential concepts and values,
  • dominating documents, history
  • the health impact assessment process,
  • utilization in the decision-making process,
  • HIA examples, and application of HIA
Method online
Topics principles and premises essential concepts and values, dominating documents, history the health impact assessment process, utilization in the decision-making process, HIA examples, and application of HIA
Target audience The course is open to degree students, medical students, nursing students, public health, exchange students.
Duration Yearly