Inventory of HIA tools

  • The Merseyside Guidelines for Health Impact Assessment. 2001.
    Published by the International Health IMPACT Assessment Consortium, this is often cited

  • The Healthy Development Measurement Tool 2007
    Developed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the HDMT is an evidence-based practice to consider public health objectives in land use planning. It provides land use planners, public agencies, and community stakeholders with a set of metrics to assess the extent to which urban development projects, plans and policies affect health. Click here for a pdf version of the tool.

  • 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

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