Use of Health Impact Assessment in the U.S

Integration of health into urban spatial planning through impact assessment: Identifying governance and policy barriers and facilitators

“…It also points to the need for more evaluation of the other techniques from the health viewpoint. (Ahmad et al, 2008;Bendel and Owen-Smith, 2005;BMI, 1998;Douglas et al, 2007;Elliott and Francis, 2005;France, 2004;GCPH, 2007;Greig et al, 2004;Hay and Kitcher, 2004;Kemm et al, 2004;Lester and Temple, 2006;Mindell et al, 2004;PAS, 2008b;NHS London, 2008Wismar et al, 2007;YHEC, 2006) SA/SEA (Burns and Bond, 2008;Fischer et al, 2010) EIA (Sutcliffe,1995) IIA (Plant et al, 2007) EqIA (PAS,2008a) SIA (Wismar et al, 2007) NL HIA (Bekker et al, 2005;Kemm et al, 2004) SA/SEA (Fischer et al, 2010) Germany SEA (Fischer et al, 2010) HIA (Wismar et al , 2007) Denmark SEA (Kørnøv, 2009) Finland IA (Viinikainen and Kaehoe, 2007) Hungary HIA (Kosa et al, 2007) Italy HIA (Wismar et al, 2007) Sweden HIA (Wismar et al, 2007) USA HIA (Dannenberg et al, 2008;Farhang et al, 2008) IA (Bhatia and Wernham, 2008;Corburn and Bathia, 2007) EIA (Steinemann, 2000) Australia HIA (Blau and Mahoney, 2005;Gow and Dubois, 2007;Neville et al, 2005) IA (Kjellstrom et al, 2003) EIA 8 New Zealand HIA (Mathias and Harris-Roxas, 2009...…”

Assessment of health risks of policies

“…Since then, experience has accumulated and demands for the assessment of health effects of various proposals and initiatives have grown substantially (Veerman et al, 2005;Dannenberg et al, 2006;Dannenberg et al, 2008). Several guidelines have been developed with the aim to unify methodology and aid users in their efforts to predict impact on health (Scott-Samuel et al, 2001;Taylor and Blair-Stevens, 2002;Health Canada, 2004;Abrahams el al., 2004;Cole et al, 2005;Quigley et al, 2006;Harris et al, 2007;Metcalfe et al, 2009;Bhatia et al, 2010;Bathia, 2010;Human Impact Partners, 2011;Chadderton et al, 2013).…”

Translating Research to Policy Through Health Impact Assessment in Clark County, Washington: a Commentary to Accompany the Active Living Research Supplement to Annals of Behavioral Medicine

“…One emerging tool health jurisdictions can use to translate research into built environment policy is Health Impact Assessment (HIA) [4,5]. The National Research Council defines HIA as "a systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population.…”