Examples of Completed Health Impact Assessments (HIA)

Lists of HIAs

Economic Development

  • A Desk-based Health Impact Assessment of the North West Regional Economic Strategy(2006)
    This report describes the potential health effects of the North West Regional Economic Strategy (RES) on the population of the U.K.’s North West, identified from the desk-based health impact assessment. HIA is concerned with improving health and reducing health inequalities. HIA can be of different depths and durations; for pragmatic reasons this HIA was undertaken as a desk-based exercise over a two-day period.
  • 2014 Commonwealth Games Health Impact Assessment Report: Planning for Legacy (2009)
    Focusing on the issue of inequality, this report proposes how to be sensitive to the diverse population of Glasgow. Conducted by Glasgow City Council, Chief Executive’s Office, Corporate Policy Health Team working in partnership with: Glasgow Centre for Population Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Public Health Resource Unit, and the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. A attractive and readable summary is also available.

Environmental

  • Health Impact Assessment of Land Remediation Options: Site of the Former Phurnacite Factory at Abercwmboi (2003)
    The report reflects a collaborative HIA of land remediation options for the former site of a phurnacite-fuel briquette factory in Wales. The likely impacts of the processes involved on the physical and mental health of the community were examined in terms of the relevant scientific and medical literature, the history of the site and the evidence of local people.
  • Rapid HIA of Jersey Waste Disposal Plant: Stage 1 (2007) and Stage 2 (2008)
    Assesses health effects of an Energy from Waste Facility proposed for the Island of Jersey. Prepared by a team from the University of Liverpool. The stage 2 report, which focused on the distribution of health effects, contains a number of helpful tables and charts including a very clear summary of health impacts (see pages 10-11).

Health Facilities and Programs

  • Health Impact Assessment of the Redevelopment of the Liverpool Hospital
    This is an example of a prospective HIA on the redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, Australia. As a result of the screening step of the HIA, the steering committee decided to focus on the construction phase of the redevelopment for the HIA. The aim of the HIA was to identify the potential positive and negative health impacts of the Liverpool Hospital redevelopment. The outcome of the HIA was to develop recommendations for the Executive User Group (EUG) regarding improvements to health and well being. In this report, the appendices are particularly helpful; for example, one provides the question sheets used for their structured interviews.
  • Manchester Healthy Living Network: Mental Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA) (2009)
    An example of a project assessing mental health effects of programs including volunteering, food programs, and health development. This rather large file becomes more manageable if you compress the images using the automated Microsoft Word function for doing this.

Housing

  • Health Impact Assessment: Dove Gardens
    This report details the findings of a HIA carried out on a housing redevelopment project in Derry, England, in 2005. The report offers examples of each of the steps involved in preparing the HIA, as well as results and recommendations.
  • Housing for Health? A Screening Health Impact Assessment of the Consultation Draft of the Regional Housing Strategy (April 2007)
    The purpose of this report is to support the development of a Regional Housing Strategy (RHS). The North East Assembly, as the lead partner for the North East Regional Housing Board in the U.K. is developing an updated RHS to replace the existing strategy produced in 2005. A group of individuals with a range of skills and backgrounds, including public health and housing, screened the consultation draft of the Strategy for Potential Health and Inequality Impact in March 2007.

Planning—City and Regional

Transportation

  • Alconbury Health Impact Assessment: Final Report (3.3 MB)
    This summary report—“From Bombs to Boom! HIA on a Former Air Base”—provides an example of a well-illustrated [insert hyphen] final HIA rapid assessment report. The proposed Alconbury airfield redevelopment was for a road and rail freight-distribution center. Initial screening for potential health impacts identified both positive and negative consequences for human health and well-being, within the population of interest.
  • Lowry Corridor Phase 2: Health Impact Assessment (2007)
    Conducted by staff from Hennepin county in Minnesota, this HIA assesses the effects of redesigning a roadway. Recommendations relate to social connections, neighborhood stability, right of way design, and physical activity.
  • Rapid Health Impact Assessment: Road Safety Unit(Safer Routes to School) (October 2001)
    This is an example of a rapid, retrospective HIA that the Westminster, England, transportation department chose to do on its Road Safety Unit (Safer Routes to School). Using the Merseyside Guidelines for Health Impact Assessment as a framework, the aim was to make a qualitative assessment of the potential health impacts of the Westminster Council's activities relating to Road Safety Unit (Safer Routes to School) with a particular emphasis on inequalities and on local strategic partnerships.
  • Wairau/Taharoto Corridor Road Widening Project Mini Health Impact Assessment (June 2006)
    This mini-HIA focused on the future upgrade of the Wairau/Taharoto Road Corridor in New Zealand, which are among the busiest roads in the North Shore City, carrying on average 26,000 and 30,000 vehicles per day, respectively. The HIA recommendations were split into sections that reflected the organization that had the most ability to implement each recommendation. They were broken into overarching and priority concepts, and specific concepts and design considerations for the corridor.

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