Information regarding the evaluation of health impacts and mitigation measures, together with the information on other environmental impacts, should then be used by decision-makers to select the proposed action from the alternatives evaluated. A number of more or less complex decision- making procedures have been developed to assist at this stage in the EIA process (Lahlou and Canter, 1993). In terms of a health impact assessment methodology, the aim of this activity is not the selection process itself, but the organization and presentation of the health impact information, integrated with other environmental impact information, in a way that is most useful to the decision makers.
The selection of the proposed action should be accompanied by the design of a health monitoring program if potentially significant health impacts are expected to result from the implementation of the action. One objective of