Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making

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Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can be used to evaluate a proposed plan or project’s potential effects on the health of a population. HIA provides evidence-based recommendations aimed at enhancing positive health impacts and minimizing negative ones, providing an approach to the decision-making process by:

• Considering health outcomes such as social, economic and environmental influences;
• Convening diverse members of the public to elicit multiple perspectives and input;
• Identifying groups of people who might be particularly vulnerable to health impacts; and
• Reviewing potential strategies that may reduce negative health impacts and increase positive impacts.