Abstract
Background and Objective:Health impact assessment (HIA) offer a very logical and interesting approach for those aiming to integrate health issues into planning processes. With a lot of works and plans waiting to be done (e.g., developing and updating plans, counseling planning commissions, cooperation with other organizations), planners find it difficult to prioritize health among a variety of possible issues and solutions they confront.Method:In the present article, first, the list of social determinants of health associated with Chitgar man-made lake was extracted out using a qualitative method and with content analysis approach, and then they were prioritized using analytic hierarchy process.Results:28 social determinants of health including “intermediary” and “structural” determinants were extracted out. Regarding positive effects of lake on these determinants, “recreational services” and “traffic” received the highest and the lowest weights with 0.895 and 0.638 respectively among structural determinants and with consideration to “construction” option. Furthermore, among intermediary determinants for “construction” option, sub-criteria of both “physical activity” and “air quality” received the final highest weight (0.889) and “pathogenesis” indicated the lowest weight with 0.617. Moreover, lake demonstrated the highest negative effects on “housing” among “structural” determinants which it takes the highest weight (0.476) in “non-construction” option. Additionally, lake had the highest negative effects on “noise pollution” among “intermediary determinants” and it takes the highest weight (0.467) in “non-construction” option.Conclusion:It has been shown that urban development projects such as green spaces, man-made lakes … have a huge range of effects on community’s health, and having not considered these effects by urban planners and mangers is going to confront urban health with many challenges.
Highlights
In most of the cases, urban planning entities are not the only elements or even, the main responsible institutions for health-related goals in the urban planning process, but the cooperation between these entities with planning process is quite necessary
It has been shown that urban development projects such as green spaces, man-made lakes ... have a huge range of effects on community’s health, and having not considered these effects by urban planners and mangers is going to confront urban health with many challenges
Mean age of participants was 30, and they were experts in urban development, environmental, water source, civil engineering, sociology, urbanization, and health determinants areas. Their education ranged from B.S to P.H.D, and four of them were indigenous to the region and the others were from other parts of the city
Summary
In most of the cases, urban planning entities are not the only elements or even, the main responsible institutions for health-related goals in the urban planning process, but the cooperation between these entities with planning process is quite necessary. There are some other social, economic, and environmental organizations involved in this process. For such conditions, we need a cooperative approach, i.e. a common activity towards reaching pre-agreed goals. We need a cooperative approach, i.e. a common activity towards reaching pre-agreed goals This cooperation in urban planning gets both approaches together in order to have consciously decisions and efforts for society interference. Some part of this process requires identifying interest groups in the society who owns the benefits of adversaries in the decisions (Barati, 2011). With a lot of works and plans waiting to be done (e.g., developing and updating plans, counseling planning commissions, cooperation with other organizations), planners find it difficult to prioritize health among a variety of possible issues and solutions they confront
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