Some Recent Additions
Crossrail: Impact Assessments
This collection is now complete and covers: Crossrail HIA Report 2006;
Crossrail: Assessment of Socio-economic Impacts;
Crossrail: Equality Impact Assessment; Crossrail: mitigation and enhancement report (based on Equality IA 2006). Crossrail, 2005-2010.
Evidence Guide for HIA in Resource Development Projects
A tool and guide for assessing the health impacts of resource development projects e.g. oil, gas, mining. Identifies the health effects most commonly associated with these projects. Habitat Health Consulting, January 2010.
Health Impacts of Wind Energy: a rapid review.
A rapid review of health impacts of wind energy. A review of both published and grey literature on offshore and onshore wind energy impacts on health. Erica Ison, December, 2009.
Improving Health: Transport Solutions in NE England
Commissioned by the Regional DPH to address the links between transport and health in relation to the growing obesity epidemic. Addresses the current policy context for ransport plans. Atkins Transport and Management, March 2009.
Health Benefits of Tackling Climate Change
A series of research articles and comments published in the Lancet. Many measures to reduce greenhouse gases will have positive impacts on health. Lancet/Wellcome Trust, November 2009.
New. HIA Guidance
Recent guidance on Health Impact Assessment from the institute of Public Health Ireland for HIA practitioners and policy makers with emphasis on health inequalities. IPH Ireland, November 2009.
Evidence on Recycling and Health
Specifically commissioned by the HIA Gateway to review the evidence on recycling and health. Also available as webpages for screen viewing and easy access by topic areas, click here to view.. Mary Lyons, Paolo Luria, Jane Harris, November 2009.
Guidance on economic appraisal of the health effects related to walking & cycling
This Pan-European (The PEP) project provides guidance on appraisal of the health effects of cycling and walking. Includes: review of approaches, full report & summary, tool, and tool guide. UNECE/WHO, 2008.
Health in SEA
Human health ought to be included in SEA. However it is often only lightly touched upon in SEA reports and discussion of health is often scattered throughout the reports and difficult to find. Two SEA reports have been assessed for inclusion on the HIA Gateway for their coverage of health and wellbeing, with comments on adequacy together with signposts to sections relevant to health. We would welcome your feedback as to how helpful this type of assessment of health in SEA reports is and how this could be improved. Please send your comments to the HIA Gateway .
Discussions on the competency frameworks for HIA have taken place at International HIA meetings and others since 2006. These documents, produced by Martin Birley can be found in this collection. These notes reflect work in progress and are not a definitive statement on HIA competencies.
Thank you to everyone who filled in the on-line survey. The summary of results from the pop-up survey of users' views is now available.
Changes to the HIA Gateway
There is now a word matching search facility for the full Bibliography.
These show the links between the proposal or the determinant of health and the predicted health outcomes. Please send your causal diagrams to the HIA Gateway .
This holds HIA reports published in 2001 and earlier, plus Guides and Tools that have been superceded by more recent versions. If you have any Guides and Tools you would like to be put in the Archive , please contact the HIA Gateway .
Menu Bar and Site Map To help with navigation of the HIA Gateway a limited Menu Bar and Site Map are on each page of the HIA Gateway on the top and bottom respectively.
Conferences and Events in 2010
HIA in the Americas Workshop 2010. 25th-26th March 2010, Oakland, California.
The meeting, for the growing number of HIA practitioners, will discuss the evolution and
progress of HIA, and strategies to further the development and practice of HIA in the
Americas. For more information, see http://habitatcorp.com/conference2010.html..
Transitioning to the Green Economy. IAIA's 30th Annual Meeting, 8-10th April 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
The objective of the conference is to provide policy makers with tools to address the global crises and promote sustainability. A preliminary programme and registration are now available.
HIA in urban development & the extractive industries, 7th April 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jointly organised by IAIA and WHO. This is a free pre-conference meeting (see above)Annual Meting and will focus exclusively on focus on HIA in Cities and HIA of natural resources and the extractive industries. Abstracts for posters now open, closing date 15th February.
For more events and courses, see Networks & Events.
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Five keynote presentations from the Rotterdam HIA'09 Conference, 14th-16th October, together with the special and interactive sessions are now available to download.
HIA Training Courses in 2010
Comprehensive HIA Training Course, 8th-10th February 2010, Dublin. A 3 Day HIA Training Course organised by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland for those who wish to develop skills and competencies in this area. A small number of Bursaries are available.
1 Day HIA training Course, 14th July 2010, Birmingham." Following the highly successful 2009 course, WMPHO and the Wales HIA Support Unit are offering this Introductory course for those with little or no knowledge of HIA. For more details and booking form click here
3 Day HIA training course, 5th-7th October 2010, Gregynog, Wales. This 3 day course held in the beautiful country house of Gregynog, Wales, UK, builds on the highly successful 2009 course. Organised jointly by the West Midlands Public Health Observatory and the Wales HIA Support Unit this is aimed at those with some knowledge or experience of HIA. For more details and booking form click here
If you are running any HIA Training Courses or courses relating to aspects of HIA and would like to have them advertised here, please send details to the HIA Gateway .
The 2011 International HIA Conference: SPAIN
The next International HIA meeting will be held in Spain in 2011 (possible Granada or Seville). Further details to follow.
On December 4th 2009 WHIASU held a one day 'Communicating and Sharing Best Practice in HIA in Wales' workshop. Discussions and presentations from the day are now available on their website. WHIASU would like to build on this day by exploring the integration of health and wellbeing into planning processes in Wales. If you have any knowledge of courses or planning applications/processes which have incorporated or have a health and wellbeing element please could you send it to Liz Green .
35 references on HIA and SEA have been added to the Bibliography, mainly 2009 and 2010.
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Wanted
Have you completed any HIA, SEA, IIA or MWIA reports, written any good guides or developed any tools for HIA or other Impact Assessments?
If so please share them with the HIA community by sending them to the HIA gateway .
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