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Online HIA learning module for planners, developed by NACCHO and the CDC
"Design for Health (DFH) is a collaborative project between the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and the University of Colorado that serves to bridge the gap between the emerging research base on community design and healthy living and the everyday realities of local government planning."
Swedish HIA guidance shows how an environmental assessment can be supplemented with a health impact assessment when municipalities are doing their physical planning.
What if an expert told you that if state Route 520 goes to 15 lanes at the Pacific interchange, 134 additional lives would be lost in five years due to traffic accidents? Or if you knew that the six-lane scenario for the same road would increase surroundi
The EHS Guidelines contain the performance levels and measures that are normally acceptable to IFC and are generally considered to be achievable in new facilities at reasonable costs by existing technology.
Information on HIA, some resources and details on training.
Introductory information on HIA, including notes on what HIA is and what it isn't.
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"Health Impact Assessment is 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." Source: Gothenburg Consensus Paper on Healt...
Updated on 2009-11-08
Created on 2008-11-18
Category: Health & Wellness
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