Assessing framing assumptions in quantitative health impact assessments: A housing intervention example

Health impact assessment (HIA) is often used to determine ex ante the health impact of an environmental policy or an environmental intervention. Underpinning any HIA is the framing assumption, which defines the causal pathways mapping environmental exposures to health outcomes. The sensitivity of th...

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Main Authors: Marco Mesa-Frias, Zaid Chalabi, Anna M. Foss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-09-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412013001207