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The World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged health impact assessment (HIA) as an important method for maximizing health promotion at the local, national, and international levels. The relevance and impact of HIA is mainly linked to its contribution to supporting the empowerment of people to deal better with their health and their health determinants hopefully improving health conditions of individuals as well as those of the community. Inside HIA, Human Impact Assessment (HuIA) is a process for anticipating the effect of a program, a project, or a decision on human health and welfare. Sleepiness can seriously damage the quality of life and human health, as a result a great deal of attention is currently being given to this issue. Sleep problems, it is claimed, seem to be very common in contemporary society and are on the up. Nowadays the best way to avoid sleep-related accidents is to prevent sleepiness and its causes. In this book, we will examine the pathophysiological mechanisms of sleepiness, its effects on everyday life and work, and how health programs, social and legislative projects which are trying to fight off sleepiness problems, could give us a better quality of life, bring us back our physiological circadian rhythm, and reduce the accidents and errors due to the human factor so frequent, apply to the framework to HuIA.
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Scafato, E. (2014). Health Impact Assessment . In: Garbarino, S., Nobili, L., Costa, G. (eds) Sleepiness and Human Impact Assessment. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5388-5_1
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