HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP

Healthy Communities Urban/Regional Planner Riverside County Department of Public Health

January 2012

PART ONE: HIA OVERVIEW

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What is HIA?

How Can Health Effects Be Considered in Community Design?

Environmental Impact Studies

Glen Park Community Plan - Environmental Impact Report, 2010 Authors: San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Who can initiate an HIA?

Physical planning/urban planning Housing Redevelopment Transit Village Area Plan Re-zoning

Transportation infrastructure and policy

Subsidies and tax policy—cigarettes, alcohol, food,

energy, fuel After-school programs

Walk to School

Farmers Market

What types of projects can be

evaluated with the HIA ?

Where Are HIA’s Being Used For Decision-Making?

Source: Health Impact Project

Santa Monica Airport An HIA

addressed the health impacts on

neighboring communities related to air

quality, noise and the lack of an buffer

zone around the Santa Monica Airport

Los Angeles:

•The Crossings @ 29th & San Pedro St. South Central

Redevelopment

•I-710 Expansion

•Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance

•Metro Westside Subway Extension (Wilshire Corridor)

•School Physical Activities Report Cards

Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach

An HIA will address the health

implications of expansion projects and

plans at the Ports of Los Angeles and

Long Beach.

Port Container Fee

An HIA that addressed a proposed

California state bill that would assess a

fee on each container moving through

the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach

and Oakland.

Source: Health Impact Project

Where Are HIA’s Being Used For Decision-Making?

How Can HIA’s be Funded?

Entitlement Development Review

Grants, Charity

PART TWO: HIA COMPONENTS

Components/ Phases

Screening

Scoping

Assessment

Recommendations

Reporting

Monitoring

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Is decision-making process open to new information?

Scoping

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Assessment

Recommendations

Identify and evaluate the efficacy of feasibility of mitigations, design strategies, or decision alternatives

Prioritize recommendations with stakeholder input

Develop a health management monitoring plan

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Reporting

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Monitoring

RESOURCES

Health Impact Project

http://www.healthimpactproject.org

The UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse Learning and Information Center

http://www.hiaguide.org/

Active Living Resources

http://www.activelivingresearch.org/resourcesearch/hia

The HIA Gateway

http://www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=P_HIA

THANK YOU