Overview of Health Impact Assessment and main components

1. HEALTH
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP
Healthy Communities Urban/Regional Planner
Riverside County Department of Public Health
January 2012

2. PART ONE:
HIA OVERVIEW

3. 14
What is HIA? 12
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POPULATION

4. How Can Health Effects Be Considered
in Community Design?
Environmental Impact Studies
Glen Park Community Plan - Environmental Impact
Report, 2010
Authors: San Francisco Planning Department, San
Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San
Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Location: San Francisco, California, United States

5. Who can initiate an HIA?

6. What types of projects can be
evaluated with the HIA ?
 Physical planning/urban planning
 Housing Redevelopment
 Transit Village
 Area Plan
 Re-zoning
 Transportation infrastructure and policy
 Subsidies and tax policy—cigarettes, alcohol, food,
energy, fuel
 After-school programs
 Walk to School
 Farmers Market

7. Where Are HIA’s Being Used For
Decision-Making?
Source: Health Impact Project

8. Where Are HIA’s Being Used For
Decision-Making? Los Angeles:
•The Crossings @ 29th & San Pedro St. South Central
Redevelopment
•I-710 Expansion
•Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance
•Metro Westside Subway Extension (Wilshire Corridor)
•School Physical Activities Report Cards
Port Container Fee
An HIA that addressed a proposed
California state bill that would assess a
Santa Monica Airport An HIA fee on each container moving through
addressed the health impacts on the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach
neighboring communities related to air and Oakland.
quality, noise and the lack of an buffer Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach
zone around the Santa Monica Airport An HIA will address the health
implications of expansion projects and
plans at the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach.
Source: Health Impact Project

9. How Can HIA’s be Funded?
Grants, Charity
Entitlement Development
Review

10. PART TWO:
HIA COMPONENTS

11. Components/ Phases
 Screening
 Scoping
 Assessment
 Recommendations
 Reporting
 Monitoring

12. I. Screening
Is decision-making process
open to new information?
Image: sandiegobesthomesandinvestments.com

13. Scoping
Source: PolicyLinK

14. Assessment

15. Recommendations
 Identify and evaluate the efficacy of
feasibility of mitigations, design
strategies, or decision alternatives
 Prioritize recommendations with
stakeholder input
 Develop a health management
monitoring plan
Source: PolicyLinK

16. Reporting
Source: PolicyLinK

17. Monitoring

18. RESOURCES
 Health Impact Project
 http://www.healthimpactproject.org
 The UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse Learning and
Information Center
 http://www.hiaguide.org/
 Active Living Resources
 http://www.activelivingresearch.org/resourcesearch/hia
 The HIA Gateway
 http://www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=P_HIA

19. THANK YOU