Healthy Development Measurement Toolkit

Health Impact Assessment

General Information (top)

• National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) - http://www.naccho.org/topics/environmental/landuseplanning/HIA.cfm
• UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse Learning and Information Center - http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/hiaclic/
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/hia.htm
• UCLA School of Public Health, HIA project - http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/health-impact/
• World Health Organization, Health Impact Assessment Website - http://www.who.int/hia/en/
• U.K. Health Impact Assessment Gateway - http://www.publichealth.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=HIAGateway
• The Merseyside Guidelines for Health Impact Assessment - http://www.ihia.org.uk/document/merseyguide3.pdf
• Harris-Roxas B, Simpson S, Harris L. Equity-Focused Health Impact Assessment: A Literature Review - http://chetre.med.unsw.edu.au/files/Harris-Roxas_B_(2004)_Equity_Focused_HIA.pdf
• Netherlands Case Studies, Health Impact Assessment Database - https://webcollect.rivm.nl/hiadatabase/

HIA Overview (top)

• Cole BL, Shimkhada R. Fielding JE, Kominski G, Morgenstern H. 2005. Methodologies for realizing the potential of health impact assessment.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  28(4):382–389.
• Lock K. 2000. Health impact assessment.  British Medical Journal.  320;1395-1398.
• Dannenberg A, Bhatia R, Cole B, Heaton S, Feldman J, Rutt C. 2008. Use of Health Impact Assessment in the United States: 27 Case Studies, 1999-2007.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 34:241-256.
• Parry J, Stevens A. 2001. Prospective health impact assessment: Pitfalls, problems, and possible ways forward. British Medical Journal.  323:1177-1182.
• Dannenberg AL, Bhatia R, Cole BL, et al. 2006. Growing the field of health impact assessment in the United States: An agenda for research and practice. American Journal of Public Health. 96:262-270.

HIA Process and Steps (top)

• Quigley R, den Broeder L, Furu P, Bond A, Cave B, Bos R. 2006. Health Impact Assessment. International Best Practice Principles. International Association of Impact Assessment. Special Publication Series No. 5. Fargo, North Dakota: IAIA.
• enHealth. 2001. Health Impact Assessment Guidelines. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.  Available at:  www.dhs.vic.gov.au/nphp/enhealth/council/pubs/pdf/hia_guidelines.pdf.
• North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group. 2009. Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment, Version 1. North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group. Available at: www.sfphes.org.
• Mindell J, et al. 2006. A guide to reviewing published evidence for HIA. London: London Health Observatory.
• Veerman JL Mackenbach JP, Barendregt JJ. 2007. Validity of predictions in health impact assessment. J. Epidemiology Community Health. 61:363-366.
• Cole B, Fielding J. 2007. Health impact assessment: A tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care. Annual Reviews of Public Health. 28:393-412.
• Human Impact Partners. 2008. Health Impact Assessment Guidebook. Oakland, CA.  Available at: http://www.humanimpact.org.

Integrating HIA and EIA (top)

• Steinemann A. 2000. Rethinking human health impact assessment.  Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 20:627-645.
• Bhatia R, Wernham A. 2008. Integrating human health into environmental impact assessment: An unrealized opportunity for environmental health and justice.  Environmental Health Perspectives. 116:991–1000.
• Bhatia R. 2007. Protecting health with environmental impact assessment: A case study of San Francisco land use decision-making. American Journal of Public Health. 97:406-413.

SFDPH HIA Case Studies (top)

• Wier M, Weintraub J, Humphreys EH, Seto E, Bhatia R. 2009. An area-level model of vehicle-pedestrian injury collisions with implications for land use and transportation planning. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 41(1):137-145.

• Bhatia R, et al. 2008. A Health Impact Assessment of the California Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act of 2008. Oakland, California: Human Impact Partners and San Francisco Department of Public Health. Available at: www.sfphes.org.  
• Farhang L, et al. 2008. Creating tools for healthy development: Case study of San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods Community Health Impact Assessment.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 14(3):255-65.
• Bhatia R, Rivard T. 2008. Assessment and Mitigation of Air Pollutant Health Effects from Intra-urban Roadways: Guidance for Land Use Planning and Environmental Review. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Department of Public Health.  Available at: www.sfphes.org.
• Katz M, Bhatia R. 2001. Estimation of health benefits accruing from a living wage ordinance. American Journal of Public Health. 91:1398-1402.