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HIA Manuals and Guidelines

Tools for Health Impact Assessment

Reviewed Guidelines and Manuals

The following links are to detailed reviews of some of the guidelines, manuals and checklists available for HIA, sorted alphabetically.

  1. Developing Health Impact Assessment in Wales: better health, better Wales
    The National Assembly for Wales, Wales
  2. Easy Guide to Health Impact Assessment for Local Authorities
    Chimeme Egbutah & Keith Churchill, UK
  3. Equity Focused Health Impact Assessment Framework
    Australasian Collaboration for Health Equity Impact Assessment, Australia & New Zealand
  4. Guide to Health Impact Assessment: a policy tool for New Zealand
    Public Health Advisory Committee, New Zealand
  5. Guide to Health Impact Assessment
    Ministry of Health, New Zealand
  6. Health Impact Assessment for Regeneration Projects: a practical guide
    Ben Cave and Sarah Curtis, UK
  7. Health Impact Assessment Guidelines
    EnHealth Council, Australia
  8. Health Inequalities Impact Assessment Checklist & Rapid Appraisal Tools Assessing the Potential Impacts
    National Public Health Service for Wales
  9. HIA: an introductory paper
    The Institute for Public Health in Ireland, Ireland
  10. HIA: piloting the process in Scotland
    Scottish Needs Assessment Program (SNAP), Scotland
  11. Introducing Health Impact Assessment: informing the decision-making process
    NHS Health Development Agency, UK
  12. Merseyside Guidelines for Health Impact Assessment
    Alex Scott-Samuel, Martin Birley & Kate Arden
  13. Rapid Health Impact Assessment: a screening tool for registered social landlords and social housing providers
    Anthea Cooke, HIA
  14. Rapid HIA: a guide to research
    Amanda Harris, UK
  15. Resource for Health Impact Assessment
    Erica Ison, UK
  16. Swedish HIA Tool
    Swedish Federation of Local Government, Sweden
  17. European Policy Health Impact Assessment
    European Commission, Europe

Other Guidelines and Manuals

  1. Better Policy Making: Supplementary Guidance on Integrated Policy Appraisal in DTLR
    DLTR, UK
  2. Building a Healthier Future by Taking Health into Account
    Welsh European Office, Wales
  3. East London HIA Toolkit
    Ben Cave, UK
  4. Guide to Doing a Prospectivds1e HIA of a Home Zone
    South and West Devon Health Authority, UK
  5. Health and Wellbeing Screening Checklist: A guide to using health impact assessment in your organisation
    Devon Health Forum, UK
  6. Health Inequalities Impact Assessment
    National Public Health Service for wales, Wales
  7. Screening Tool for Assessing the Impacts of Committee Reports on Health and Well-Being
    Westminster City Council and Westminster Primary Care Trust, UK
  8. Screening Tool for Health Impact Assessment
    Greater Western Area Health Service, Australia
  9. Community Health Impact Assessment Tool
    Antigonish Town & County Community Health Board



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