The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spatial planning affects the built environment, which in turn has the potential to have a significant impact on health, for good or ill. One way of ensuring that spatial plans take due account of health is through the inclusion of health considerations in the statutory and non statutory appraisal processes linked to plan-making processes.

Methods

A systematic review to identify evaluation studies of appraisals or assessments of plans where health issues were considered from 1987 to 2010.

Results

A total of 6161 citations were identified: 6069 from electronic databases, 57 fromwebsite searches, with a further 35 citations from grey literature, of which 20 met the inclusion criteria. These 20 citations reported on a total of 135 different case studies: 11 UK

SUBMITTER: Gray S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3276579 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature