Good Information about HIA
Health-impact assessment is a growing field that comes in a number of forms, including the following:
- Audits, scoping tools, screening tools, or preliminary checklists. Often described as a two-step process of screening and scoping, the shorter versions of these tools take a few hours and are meant to screen potential projects (developments, plans, policies) to determine if they are worth assessing or to scope out the important issues.
- Rapid assessment workshops. These are focus group like workshops that likely take a half day to a day to conduct, a few weeks to prepare for, and can take some weeks to write up.
- Assessment tools, such as spreadsheets. These may take a month or more to conduct.
- Comprehensive HIAs. These are similar to an environmental impact assessment (Harris no date; Scott-Samuel et al. 2001).
Other HIA Tools
- General background information
- HIA PowerPoint presentations
- Inventory of HIA tools
- Examples of completed HIAs
*It is important to note that the information does not necessarily target planners; however, it does offer a good overview of HIA resources and tools.
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