Health impact assessment
Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-013016
1. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is most often defined as "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" (World Health Organization, 1999). This broad definition from the World Health Organization European Center for Health Policy (ECHP) and presented in the Gothenburg Consensus paper on HIA reflects the many variants of HIA. A somewhat more precise definition is that HIA is "a multidisciplinary process within which a range of evidence about the health effects of a proposal is considered in a structured framework."
2. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is most often defined as "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" (World Health Organization, 1999). This broad definition from the World Health Organization European Center for Health Policy (ECHP) and presented in the Gothenburg Consensus paper on HIA reflects the many variants of HIA. A somewhat more precise definition is that HIA is "a multidisciplinary process within which a range of evidence about the health effects of a proposal is considered in a structured framework."
3. Tool used to review planning and policy proposals to make recommendations to improve the health outcomes of those proposals. The assessment is a combination of procedures and methods used to evaluate the potential and often unintended effects of a proposed project on a community’s health, and can also be used to determine how those effects are distributed across the community. Hot spot: A term commonly used to refer to an area with a concentrated amount of contamination. A “hot spot” exists if a site or area presents a risk to human health or the environment and if the contamination is highly concentrated, highly mobile or cannot be easily contained.
| Identifier | MLC-T-ENV-013016 |
|---|---|
| Field | Environment |
| Subject | Outcomes |
| Abbreviation | HIA |
| References | School Siting Guidelines Glossary; Recommendations for Integrating Environmental Justice into the EPA's Research Enterprise June 30, 2014 A Report of Recommendations of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council A federal advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-02/documents/nejac-research-recommendations-2014.pdf |
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