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Online Course: Introduction to HIA of Public Policies

Citizen Participation in HIA: An Overview of the Principal Arguments Supporting It
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Events
HIA 2013 International Conference. Geneva, Switzerland. October 2-4, 2013. Conference website.

HIA 2012 International Conference. Québec, QC. Presentations (PDF & video) on the conference website.


Links
The Determinants of Health  On the site of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Health Impact Assessment Blog. News and information on HIA, by the International Association for Impact Assessment's Health Section.

Equity-Focused Health Impact Assessment - A Community Pilot 1.58 MB. On the site of Sudbury & District Health Unit.

The Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment  1.1 MB. On the site of the World Health Organization, European Office. Abstract.

UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse – Learning and Information Center. On the site of UCLA - HIA Clearinghouse.

Health Impact assesment : main concepts and suggested approach, Gothenburg consensus paper.   138 K.  European Centre for Health Policy, 1999. On the site of the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Health Equity Impact Assessment. By Povall et al. (2013). On the site of Health Promotion International.

Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. By the National Research Council (USA), 2011. On the site of the National Academies Press.

SOPHIA - The Society of Practitioners of HIA. On the SOPHIA website. 

Mixed Waste Processing HIA - Framework and Results.  On the site of Toronto Public Health - Healthy People Healthy Environment.

Improving the use of evidence in health impact assessment  On the site of the World Health Organization: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88(7) July 2010.

Québec's Public Health Act. On the site of the Government of Québec. 


Contact
Louise St-Pierre

Julie Castonguay


Health Impact Assessment (HIA): a Promising Action Path For Promoting Healthy Public Policies
This document presents the promises and challenges of health impact assessment (HIA) and its development possibilities for Canada.
Published in February, 2008.  Description.  Download  101 K
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The mandate of the NCCHPP is to support the efforts of the public health community and the related partners who want to get involved in the healthy public policy sector. The HIA process appears to be a particularly interesting avenue for promoting healthy public policy, one that integrates several paths of action.

This background paper presents the challenges and possibilities of HIA and its development possibilities for Canada. It is the result of meetings and a knowledge review conducted between 2005 and 2007. This paper served as a point of departure at a February 22, 2008 roundtable of Quebec, Canadian and international experts organized by the NCCHPP.

Health Impact Assessment (HIA): a Promising Action Path For Promoting Healthy Public Policies 
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The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.