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Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Harvard Kennedy School
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From 2010 through 2013, the Oregon Health Authority's Public Health Division conducted its first health impact assessment, a process in which a public health organization draws on an array of analytical techniques to gauge the likely health effects of a policy or proposal in another sector. After situating the HIA in the context of the state's 'health in all policies' approach, the case captures the genesis of the HIA, the implementation process, and the response following its publication. The case focuses on how the public health division's relatively small staff managed the HIA's surprisingly large workload and how the public health team worked to incorporate the perspectives of a diverse-and sometimes opposed-set of stakeholders, most notably grassroots opposition groups and representatives of the renewable energy sector.
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From 2010 through 2013, the Oregon Health Authority's Public Health Division conducted its first health impact assessment, a process in which a public health organization draws on an array of analytical techniques to gauge the likely health effects of a policy or proposal in another sector. After situating the HIA in the context of the state's 'health in all policies' approach, the case captures the genesis of the HIA, the implementation process, and the response following its publication. The case focuses on how the public health division's relatively small staff managed the HIA's surprisingly large workload and how the public health team worked to incorporate the perspectives of a diverse-and sometimes opposed-set of stakeholders, most notably grassroots opposition groups and representatives of the renewable energy sector.
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