HIA Guidance

The guidelines presented here are in topic, country and published date order.
Often older guides can be useful for research and historical purposes to understand the evolution of HIA in countries and between countries.
If you know about a guide and don’t find it here, please get in touch and let me know what I’m missing.

General

This guide supports IFC's Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability. However, the content does not cover occupational health aspects of work environments. It is provide good practice guidance for conducting a HIA to determine potential impacts on community health as a result of project development.

Table of Content: Introduction, Section 1: Overview of HIA, Section 2: Screening: how to decide whether to conduct an HIA, Section 3: Environmental Health Areas [i.e. determinants of health], Section 4: Scoping: how comprehensive should the HIA be?, Section 5: Baseline Data: what, when, and how much?, ection 6: Stakeholder Engagement, Section 7: Risk Assessment: assessing and ranking impacts [i.e. analysing project impacts and health effects], Section 8: Health Action Plan [i.e. Management and Monitoring Plan], Section 9: Monitoring and Verification, Section 10: Resourcing

This guide focuses on: what is it, why do it, when to use it, how to do it, how to commission it.
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Health Impact Assessment, 3. Health, Determinants and Inequalities, 4. Evidence and Evidence Gathering, 5. Evaluating Evidence, 6. Dealing with Uncertainty: insufficient and contradictory evidence, 7. Stakeholder Involvement, 8. Commissioning and Scrutinising a HIA, 9. The Wider Context: political, economic  and social factors, 10. Monitoring and Evaluation of Impacts, 11. Conclusion, Sources of Further Information, References

Mining

Greenspace

This guide focuses on the health impacts and carrying out HIAs for greenspace projects, programmes and policies. The guide is useful for any country but the policy context chapter is Scotland-specific. Though it can help countries think about how local and national government greenspace policies and health policies can be aligned, be complementary, and/or integrated.

Table of Contents: Section 1 Background (1. Greenspace in Scotland, 2. Greenspace and health policy context); Section 2 Evidence (Scope of the research that was reviewed 3. Health impacts of greenspace, Summing up); Section 3 Applying the Evidence (4. Doing a health impact assessment of greenspace; 5. List of health impact assessment tools and reports on greenspace; 6. Sources of data and good practice on greenspace); Appendices (A1. Glossary of terms, A2. Literature review questions and search strategy); Case Studies (The consideration of greenspace in a regeneration/transport HIA; How HIA can be used in a greenspace policy context; Use of the health impact literature in a greenspace project HIA; The consideration of greenspace health impacts in a spatial plan; A HIA of a multi-functional and multi-use greenspace project).