Abstract
Background:Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged to identify those activities and policies likely to have major impacts on the health of a population.Method:In this research, qualitative method was applied to identifying health determinants that urban man made lake affect on them, formatting and weighing the hierarchy of the factors, calculating AHP, and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method for decide and ranking alternatives.Results:According to the results of the study, from the structural determinants point of view, the most positive effect of man-made lake was on Recreational services by 89.5% and the most negative one was on housing. According to intermediary determinants and general average, the most positive effect of lake was on physical activity and quality of air by 88.9% and the most negative one was on noise pollution by 46.7%. Ultimately, considering the positive and negative effects of lake between constructing and not constructing the lake option, the construction option was selected.Conclusion:There is substantial potential to improve public health by bringing decision makers’ attention to the health consequences of their actions; city councilpersons, zoning commissioners, and other decision makers typically have little background in health.
Highlights
It has been proved that environmental and social factors such as community design, land use, transportation systems and so on, have a great impact on public health, but there are no sufficient sophisticated health officials or urban planners who have been trained in this field (Azapagic et al, 2013)
According to the results of the study, from the structural determinants point of view, the most positive effect of man-made lake was on Recreational services by 89.5% and the most negative one was on housing
According to intermediary determinants and general average, the most positive effect of lake was on physical activity and quality of air by 88.9% and the most negative one was on noise pollution by 46.7%
Summary
It has been proved that environmental and social factors such as community design, land use, transportation systems and so on, have a great impact on public health, but there are no sufficient sophisticated health officials or urban planners who have been trained in this field (Azapagic et al, 2013). A health impact assessment (HIA) is defined as “a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged in terms of its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population” (Ardell, 1969; Galea, 2002; Dannenberg et al, 2006). Several studies have been conducted with the main focus on evaluation of health effects of urban projects, but few of them are area of Man-made Lakes. In national development plans health promotion is treated as a side subject like other economic, cultural, social indicators and so on. Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged to identify those activities and policies likely to have major impacts on the health of a population
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