Enabling factors and barriers for the use of health impact assessment in decision-making processes.

摘要: Summary Objective To identify key stakeholders’ views of factors that may enable or limit the use health impact assessment (HIA) in decision-making processes within their organizations. Methods In-depth interviews were carried out with 14 informants from local and regional stakeholder Setting North East England, 2005. Results Three emergent themes identified: leadership HIA; integration HIA existing organizational structures; joint working between Conclusions With exception a ‘leadership vacuum’ had not been described previously, present findings on decision making by organizations region are consistent those reported previously literature. In absence nationally defined regulatory framework for practice, promote hinder process be pivotal advancing practice region.