General information on HIA
- Health Impact Assessment Gateway: Resources
This web site contains the following categories: Completed HIAs, Toolkits, Evidence and resources, General guidance, HIA books, Journal articles on HIA, and Conference and seminar reports.
- Resource for Health Impact Assessment Vol I: The Main Resource. 2000.
This 198-page report is a general resource document for HIA. Commissioned by the National Health Service Executive London, it provides a detailed overview of HIA, including sections on Introducing HIA, Applying HIA, and Resources for HIA.
- Resource for Health Impact Assessment Vol II: Case Studies. 2001.
Volume II of the Resource for Health Impact Assessment series contains a variety of HIA case studies taken from across England and Wales . Cases are divided into the following categories: Tools for health impact assessment and health inequalities impact assessment, Policy appraisal, Transport and Air quality, Regeneration, Housing, and Social and Environmental Impact Assessment.
- Health Impact Assessment Guidance . By the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, 2006.
This document, developed by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland , provides a general overview of HIA, including guidance on the steps involved in carrying out an HIA. In addition, its 12 appendices provide further technical information, including a screening tool, a variety of checklists, case study examples, and additional resources.
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A Guide to Reviewing Published Evidence for Use in Health Impact Assessment. 2006.
This 12-page document, developed by the London Health Observatory, uses detailed step-by-step instructions to illustrate how to review published evidence for an HIA. Published evidence in this context includes peer-reviewed journal articles as well as internal documents from a variety of sources. -
HIA Connect: Manuals and Guidelines
Compiled by the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research, and Evaluation at the University of New South Wales, this web site provides links to detailed reviews of some of the guidelines, manuals, and checklists available for HIA. -
World Health Organization: Health Impact Assessment
The World Health Organization's Health Impact Assessment web site provides general information on HIA, tools and methods to do HIA, HIA examples, HIA and policy, descriptions of evidence used in HIA, links to other resources, as well as information on news and events. -
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Health Impact Assessment
A collection of annotated links compiled by NACCHO on health impact assessments and the connections between health and land use. -
Health Impact Assessment: Information & Insight for Policy Decisions
This project is a joint endeavor of the Washington, D.C. based Partnership for Prevention and researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The aim of this project is to assess the feasibility of HIA and to develop prototype HIAs to demonstrate how HIA methodologies can be applied to policy decisions in the U.S.
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