HIA of Shale Gas Extraction: workshop Summary (NAS)

Health Impact Assessment of Shale Gas Extraction: Workshop Summary. published by the National Academy of Sciences, US, 2013). Members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine recognized the need to discuss the human health impact of shale gas extraction through the lens of a HIA. It convened a public workshop in 2012 with invited presentations and discussions to examine the state of the science regarding shale gas extraction, the direct and indirect environmental health impacts of shale gas extraction, and the use of health impact assessment as a tool that can help decision makers identify the public health consequences of shale gas extraction. This report is a summary of these discussions.