Determining the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: A National Study Using a Health Impact Assessment Approach in Wales.

Climate change is recognised as the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century and impacts on health and wellbeing through a range of factors. Due to this, the need to take action in order to protect population health and wellbeing is becoming ever more urgent. In 2019, Public Health Wales carried out a comprehensive mixed-method Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of climate change.

Process, Practice and Progress: A Case Study of the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Brexit in Wales.

Health impact assessment (HIA) is a systematic and flexible tool, which is advocated by the World Health Organisation as a method through which to consider the impact of policies on the health and well-being of a population, and the inequalities that may arise because of it. In 2018, the HIA support unit in Wales carried out a comprehensive and unique HIA on the impact of Brexit in Wales. The aims were to understand the differential impacts that Brexit would have on the health and well-being of the population and to provide evidence to inform decision makers across a range of public bodies.