scholarly journals The art of the possible: Experience and practice in health impact assessment in New South Wales

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals The Summer 2019–2020 Wildfires in East Coast Australia and Their Impacts on Air Quality and Health in New South Wales, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3538
Author(s):  
Hiep Duc Nguyen ◽  
Merched Azzi ◽  
Stephen White ◽  
David Salter ◽  
Toan Trieu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
East Coast ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Exposed Population ◽  
The Impact

The 2019–2020 summer wildfire event on the east coast of Australia was a series of major wildfires occurring from November 2019 to end of January 2020 across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australia. The wildfires were unprecedent in scope and the extensive character of the wildfires caused smoke pollutants to be transported not only to New Zealand, but also across the Pacific Ocean to South America. At the peak of the wildfires, smoke plumes were injected into the stratosphere at a height of up to 25 km and hence transported across the globe. The meteorological and air quality Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model is used together with the air quality monitoring data collected during the bushfire period and remote sensing data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellites to determine the extent of the wildfires, the pollutant transport and their impacts on air quality and health of the exposed population in NSW. The results showed that the WRF-Chem model using Fire Emission Inventory (FINN) from National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to simulate the dispersion and transport of pollutants from wildfires predicted the daily concentration of PM2.5 having the correlation (R2) and index of agreement (IOA) from 0.6 to 0.75 and 0.61 to 0.86, respectively, when compared with the ground-based data. The impact on health endpoints such as mortality and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases hospitalizations across the modelling domain was then estimated. The estimated health impact on each of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census districts (SA4) of New South Wales was calculated based on epidemiological assumptions of the impact function and incidence rate data from the 2016 ABS and NSW Department of Health statistical health records. Summing up all SA4 census district results over NSW, we estimated that there were 247 (CI: 89, 409) premature deaths, 437 (CI: 81, 984) cardiovascular diseases hospitalizations and 1535 (CI: 493, 2087) respiratory diseases hospitalizations in NSW over the period from 1 November 2019 to 8 January 2020. The results are comparable with a previous study based only on observation data, but the results in this study provide much more spatially and temporally detailed data with regard to the health impact from the summer 2019–2020 wildfires.

scholarly journals The Summer 2019-2020 Wildfires in East Coast Australia and Their Impacts on Air Quality and Health in New South Wales, Australia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiep Duc Nguyen ◽  
Merched Azzi ◽  
Stephen White ◽  
David Salter ◽  
Toan Trieu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
East Coast ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Exposed Population ◽  
The Impact

The 2019-2020 summer wildfire event on the east coast of Australia was a series of major wildfires occurring from November 2019 to end of January 2020 across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australia. The wildfires were unprecedent in scope and the extensive extend of the wildfires has caused smoke pollutants transported not only to New Zealand but across the Pacific Ocean to South America. At the height of the wildfires, smoke plumes were injected into the stratosphere at height up to 25km and hence transported across the globe. Based on meteorological and air quality simulation using WRF-Chem model, air quality monitoring data collected during the bushfire period and remote sensing data from MODIS and CALIPSO satellites, the extend of the wildfires and the pollutant transport, and their impacts on air quality and health on exposed population in NSW can be analysed. The results showed that WRF-Chem model using Fire Emission Inventory from NCAR (FINN) predicts the dispersion and transport of pollutants and the predicted concentration of PM2.5 and other pollutants from wildfires reasonably well when compared with ground-based and satellite data. The impact on health endpoints such as mortality, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases hospitalisation across the modelling domain is then estimated. The estimated health impact is comparable with previous study based only on observation data, but the results in this study provide much more detailed spatially and temporally with regards to the health impact from the 2019-2020 wildfire.

scholarly journals A health impact assessment on the construction phase of a major hospital redevelopment

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Maxwell ◽  
Patrick Harris ◽  
Sharon Peters ◽  
Mark Thornell ◽  
Leah D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Major Teaching Hospital ◽  
Major Teaching

A prospective health impact assessment (HIA) was conducted to identify potential health impacts arising from the planned redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital, a major teaching hospital in New South Wales, Australia. A multidisciplinary team of health professionals oversaw the HIA and a core project team led by population health practitioners conducted the HIA using a structured, stepwise process. Methods used to gather data for the identification of impacts were a literature review, development of a population profile and consultation with stakeholders. A range of positive and negative health impacts were identified and an assessment matrix was used to prioritise the health impacts and develop recommendations for the proponents of the redevelopment plan.The HIA added value to the planning process for the hospital redevelopment, increasing capacity to conduct future HIAs.

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