Health impact assessment is a very effective way of doing this.
Have a look at the Merseyside Guidelines and also the EPHIA
methodology on our web site - www.ihia.org.uk
Do also try googling Equity Focused Health Impact Assessment - this
is an excellent Australian methodology
Best wishes, Alex
Bagnall, Anne-Marie wrote:
> Does anyone have any thoughts about how to evaluate whether an
> intervention reduces inequalities in health?
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> It seems to me that we can evaluate whether an intervention is
> effective, and we can go some way towards evaluating the reach of
> an intervention i.e. whether it is used by certain disadvantaged
> groups, but can we actually assess reliably whether an
> intervention is likely to reduce or even increase health
> inequalities? Because health inequalities seem to be increasing
> so it would be useful for decision makers to have some idea, not
> only about whether something is effective, but also whether it is
> in fact likely to increase this gap?
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> I’m sorry if this is a silly question or too simplistic. I’ve
> been puzzling over it for a while and thought it was time to ask
> the experts.
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>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Anne-Marie
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> Anne-Marie Bagnall
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