Examples of completed HIAs
- Alconbury HIA – Final Report - From Bombs to Boom! Health Impact Assessment on a Former Air Base
This summary report provides an example of a well illustrated final HIA Rapid Assessment Report. The proposed Alconbury airfield development was for a road and rail freight distribution centre. Initial screening for potential health impacts identified both positive and negative consequences for human health and well-being, within the population of interest. Click here to view the full Alconbury HIA report.
- Health Impact Assessment: Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy Options 2006
This is a report on a health impact assessment undertaken on the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy by the Canterbury District Health Board. This report formally documents the rationale behind performing a health impact assessment on the strategy, the process involved and the conclusion reached. Click here to review a copy of the completed Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy.
- Health Impact Assessment – Dove Gardens
This report details the findings of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) carried out on a housing redevelopment project in Derry in 2005. This report offers examples of each of the steps involved in preparing the HIA and results & recommendations
- Health Impact Assessment of the Redevelopment of the Liverpool Hospital
This is an example of a prospective HIA on the redevelopment of Liverpool Hospital . 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, with a focus on the construction phase. 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, it provides the question sheets they used for their structured interviews
- 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 is developing an updated Regional Housing Strategy (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.
- Bungendore Health Impact Assessment: A Rapid Health Impact Assessment of Two Development Scenarios in Bungendore, New South Wales. May 2006
In this report, two growth scenarios have been evaluated that investigate the implications of future growth on the health of its residents. The first scenario examines infill development occurring within the existing boundaries of the village. The second scenario investigates the re-zoning of some agricultural land on the perimeter of Bungendore for residential and other urban purposes.
- 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 North West, identified from the desk-based health impact assessment. 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.
- Health Impact Assessment – Draft London Plan , September 2002
This report contains the findings of the HIA on the draft Spatial Development Strategy, widely known as the London Plan. As part of the Mayor's responsibilities he has a statutory responsibility to develop 8 strategies for London . The London Health Commission in to completing Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) on all the Mayoral strategies and the Mayor has committed to incorporating the recommendations from the HIA before the document goes out for public consultation. Reports from the HIAs conducted on the other 7 strategies can be found at: http://www.londonshealth.gov.uk/hia.htm .
- Health Impact Assessment of Land Remediation Options (2003)
The report reflects a collaborative Health Impact Assessment of land remediation options for the former site of the Phurnacite Factory at Abercwmboi. 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 Health Impact Assessment: Road Safety Unite (Safer Routes to School), Report of a workshop held on Friday 12 th October 2001 ”
This is an example of a rapid, retrospective HIA that the Transportation Department chose to do on their 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 council's activities relating to Road Safety Unit (Safer Routes to School) with a particular emphasis on inequalities and on local strategic partnerships.
- Health impact assessment of the Merseyside local transport plan … work in progress. (Kate Arden)
This report provides an example of an HIA in progress that is being carried out on a transport plan; provides good explanation for why HIA is being conducted, how it has/will be conducted and what the anticipated results will be and how these results/recommendations will be implemented and incorporated into the 5-year transport plan
- 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, 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 are split into sections that reflected the organization that has 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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