hia for rchc pdf
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Overview of Health Impact Assessment and main componentsTRANSCRIPT
HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP
Healthy Communities Urban/Regional Planner Riverside County Department of Public Health
January 2012
PART ONE: HIA OVERVIEW
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What is HIA?
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
Who can initiate an 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
What types of projects can be
evaluated with the HIA ?
Where Are HIA’s Being Used For Decision-Making?
Source: Health Impact Project
Santa Monica Airport An HIA
addressed the health impacts on
neighboring communities related to air
quality, noise and the lack of an buffer
zone around the Santa Monica Airport
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 of Los Angeles and Long Beach
An HIA will address the health
implications of expansion projects and
plans at the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach.
Port Container Fee
An HIA that addressed a proposed
California state bill that would assess a
fee on each container moving through
the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach
and Oakland.
Source: Health Impact Project
Where Are HIA’s Being Used For Decision-Making?
How Can HIA’s be Funded?
Entitlement Development Review
Grants, Charity
PART TWO: HIA COMPONENTS
Components/ Phases
Screening
Scoping
Assessment
Recommendations
Reporting
Monitoring
I. Screening
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Is decision-making process open to new information?
Scoping
Source: PolicyLinK
Assessment
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
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Reporting
Source: PolicyLinK
Monitoring
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
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