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Contribution to healthy places: Risks of equity free health impact assessment

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  • Buregeya, Jean Marie
  • Loignon, Christine
  • Brousselle, Astrid

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While health equity is central to health impact assessment [HIA], in reality, less is known about potential impacts of equity-free HIA on social inequalities. We assessed equity-free HIA case in a small city east of Montreal, which took place in a context of urban revitalization. We applied a combination of a quantitative review of community characteristics with a qualitative descriptive approach based on in-depth semi-structured interviews and a focus group with multiple stakeholders to shed light on the pitfalls of equity-free HIA. Our results pointed to gentrification process with a gradual relocation of low-income residents in the end. To mitigate mediating circumstances of gentrification and displacement, the municipality should support social housing or at least should ensure rent stabilization ordinance.

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  • Buregeya, Jean Marie & Loignon, Christine & Brousselle, Astrid, 2019. "Contribution to healthy places: Risks of equity free health impact assessment," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 138-145.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:73:y:2019:i:c:p:138-145
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.12.007
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