health impact assessment: healthier places, empowered people
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Health Impact
Assessment: Healthier
Places, Empowered People
HIAs Address Factors Outside of
Health and Health Care
The Health Impact ProjectA collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts
• A national initiative to reduce health inequities and
improve the health of all people by ensuring that
health is a valued and routine consideration in
decisions affecting them.
What is Health Impact
Assessment?
Uses scientific data, health expertise, and public input to identify potential health effects of proposed decisions
Offers practical recommendations for ways to minimize risks and maximize opportunities to improve health
Gives decision makers information needed to help build healthy, safe, and thriving communities
HIAs Examine Specific
Decisions
Slide courtesy of Human Impact Partners (www.humanimpact.org)
Housing
Air quality
Noise
Safety
Social networks
Nutrition
Parks and natural space
Private goods and services
Public services
Transportation
Livelihood
Water quality
Education
Inequities
How might the proposed
project, plan, policy
affect
and potentially lead to
predicted health
outcomes?
Steps of HIA
Screening
Scoping
Assessment
Recommendations
Reporting
Monitoring and Evaluation
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Denver South Lincoln Homes HIA
• Conducted by: EnviroHealth Consulting,
MITHUN firm, and Denver Housing
Authority
• Focus: Health impacts of a master plan
for redevelopment of distressed 270 unit
public housing complex.
• Data: Literature review and community-
collected data
• Funder: Local Initiatives Support
Corporation
BaselineHealth Impacts of Plan as Written:
• Improved physical activity, options for
healthy eating
• Noise exposure because more
residences near railway
• Injury—likely reduced, but need for
traffic calming at key intersections
• Reduced crime, related to improved
social interaction
Baseline Health: Concentrated poverty; 38% <high
school; 55% obese or overweight; 40% smoking; 40% fair
or poor overall health; higher rates of crime and violent
crime than Denver
Results
• Lighting, design amenities to increase pedestrian use
• Childcare facility
• Building design to promote stairway use
• Noise barriers and acoustic design
• Community gardens; farmers market
• Pedestrian-focused environment, with walking paths, separated
bike lanes, traffic calming
The City Heights Skate Park HIA
• Conducted by: Mid-City Community Advocacy Network (Mid-City
CAN), in partnership with Human Impact Partners, the Mid-City
CAN youth council, and the Tony Hawk Foundation
• Focus: To examine health and equity implications of a proposal to
build a skate park in City Heights, San Diego.
• Data: Literature and local data collected by youth advocates
• Funder: The California Endowment
Results
• Establishment of two skate parks and a recreation center in City
Heights.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfm3IaXhNs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRomWxfhU6A
More info…• Explore an interactive map of
HIAs:
www.healthimpactproject.org
• Contact: Rebecca Morley,
• Follow @RMorleyHIA