HIA Preliminary Checklist
The preliminary checklist is the first step in the HIA process used to identify health issues and determine if further Assessment is needed. This simple two-page form enables planners to assess whether a project is significant enough in size and scope and has enough potential health effects to warrant more work. Part 1 addresses the size of the project/plan and Part 2 focuses on easily assessable specific items. These effects can be positive or negative and are not the only effects that a project/plan may have.
For someone very familiar with the project it should take only a few minutes to fill out. If additional information is needed, then it might take a couple of hours. In this desktop exercise, a reviewer responds to questions and sums the scores. The total score helps guide a decision about pursuing a more elaborate HIA. Although the total points may not indicate the need for an HIA, answers to a specific question could indicate a need to conduct further assessment.
- Current Edition: Version 2.1 (June 2007) (115 KB)
- Background and Instruction Sheet: Version 2.0 (July 2007) (339 KB)
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Participation and Planning for Health: How can the public participate in planning for health? Which Design for Health tools can be used in participation processes or modified for such use? This fact sheet deals with these two issues in turn.
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Communicating about Health Impacts (80 KB): Health impact assessment (HIA) tools produce a large amount of useful information about various health topics, the location of health impacts, and who is affected by a project, plan, or policy. This fact sheet presents practical ideas for presenting information about the HIA process and the findings of HIA studies to a variety of audiences.
- Comprehensive Plan Review Checklists: These Plan Review Checklists summarize the key points of the Design for Health background and health impact assessment materials. Topics match the plan elements required by the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council.
- World Health Organization: HIA Screening web site
- Health and Well Being Screening Checklist
This checklist, developed by the Devon Health Forum, provides a different example of a screening process designed to offer users a simple and easy to use process to 'rapidly' identify the health impacts of their work and help decide whether a more in depth appraisal is needed. Unlike the DFH Preliminary Checklist which is score based, this example uses a more qualitative approach to determining if further assessment is needed.
- 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.
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