Guideline Resources (HIA) Toolkit

What do these pictures have in common? Answer: Decisions made in each of the areas (transportation, development, accessibility to healthy foods, education, etc.) have an effect on our health.

HIA is a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population.

Guideline Resources

Guideline Resources

References/ recommended literature

  • Bronstein D., Vanclay F. 1995. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Chichester, New York: J. Wiley.
  • Cole, B. L., Shimkhada, R., Fielding, J. E., Kominski, G., & Morgenstern, H. (2005). Methodologies for realizing the potential of health impact assessment. American journal of preventive medicine, 28(4), 382-389.
  • Corvalen C., Nurminen M., Nurminen T. 1999. Methodologic Issues in Epidemiologic Risk Assessment. Epidemiology. 10(5): 585-93.
  • Gold M, et al. 1996. Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine. New York. Oxford University Press.
  • Kleinbaum D., Kupper L., Morgenstern L. 1982. Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods. Belmont, Calif.: Lifeitme Learning Publication.
  • Northern and York Public Health Observatory. 2004. An Overview of Health Impact Assessment – Occasional Paper no. 1. Available at: http://www.phel.gov.uk/hiadocs/200_overview_of_hia_occasional_paper_1.pdf. Accessed March 17, 2004.
  • Parry J, Stevens A. 2001. Prospective health impact assessment: pitfalls, problems and possible ways forward. BMJ. 2001;323:1177-1182.
  • Partidario M., Therivel R. 1996. The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment. London: Earthscan Publication.
  • Ritsatakis A., et al. 2000. Exploring Health Policy Development in Europe. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe.
  • Scott-Samuel A. 1998. Health impact assessment–theory into practice. Epidemiol Community Health. 52(11):704-5.
  • Scott Samuel A. 1997. Assessing how public policy impacts on health. Healthlines. 47:15–17.
  • Wood H. 1995. A Collaborative Practice model in a community hospital. Nursing Management- Illinois. 26(12):57-59
  • World Health Organization. 1999. Health Impact Assessment: main concepts and suggested approach. Gothenburg consensus paper. WHO Regional Office for Europe. Available at: http://www.euro.who.int/document/PAE/Gothenburgpaper.pdf. Accessed March 16, 2004.

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Last Updated: September 1, 2016