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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
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) 2103 Conference. (IAIA 2013 website.) May 13-16, 2013, Calgary AB.  Deadline for abstracts Dec 31, 2012. 

Course in community-driven health impact assessment. June 3-14, 2013. (Coady International Institute website.)

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.

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


HIA Practice Standards Document
A point of reference for North American Health Impact Assessment practitioners. Produced by the North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group.
Posted on this site in October, 2009.  Description.  Download  120 K.
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In October, 2008, in the context of the first North American Conference on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) held in San Francisco (U.S.A.), a working group was established in order to propose standards that would most likely ensure good practice. This decision was made following the realization of the diversity of HIA practices in North America and in other parts of the world, as well as the need to promote standards that would clearly distinguish HIA as a distinct and credible practice. Therefore, these standard practices are proposed, firstly, as reference points that can be used by Canadian and American practitioners to establish their own practices, and secondly, to stimulate discussion on the values and methods that guide these practices. 

We invite you to react to these practice standards by communicating directly with the group representative whose contact information can be found in the document, or with us directly with the link on this web page. We welcome your comments with interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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