Inclusion of Health in Environmental Impact Assessment of Major Transport Infrastructure Projects in Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infrastructure spending, especially in the transport sector, is expected to increase rapidly in Vietnam. This boost in transportation investment impacts health. Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are essential tools for decision-making to reduce and mitigate anticipated impacts of development projects, and integration of health assessment as an essential part of the EIA process has been regulated in many high-income countries. There is, however, limited knowledge about how health is evaluated in these environmental assessments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Vietnam.

Methods

We did an analysis of EIAs of four major transport projects in Vietnam, applying a six-step coding framework previously used to investigate EIAs in the Australian cont

SUBMITTER: Pham T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186477 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature