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1. CDC Healthy Community Design Checklist. This toolkit can help planners, public health professionals, and the general public include health in the community planning process. Developed in partnership between the American Planning Association's Planning and Community Health Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Community Design Initiative, the toolkit is composed of four elements that work together to achieve this goal.
2. Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Health Departments was created by the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Public Health, and the American Public Health Association in response to growing interest in using collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors.
3. Design for Health Plan Review Checklists. These Comprehensive Plan Review Checklists were created by Design for Health in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and summarize the key points of the Design for Health background and health impact assessment (HIA) materials. These checklists were designed for comprehensive land use plans, transportation plans, and neighborhood plans. They are appropriate for different kinds of locations—metropolitan or not.
4. Condensed list of collected recommendations: Health in All Policies Task Force report to the Strategic Growth Council, Appendix 3. California’s Health in All Policies Task Force. (2010). In developing a final list of recommendations, the California Health in All Policies Task Force collected over 1,200 suggestions from Task Force members, stakeholder input workshops, public comment, key informant interviews, and documents submitted to the Task Force. This appendix to the Task Force’s 2010 report contains a condensed list of approximately 600 recommendations sorted by topic area.
5. The Surgeon General's National Prevention Strategy. The National Prevention Strategy, released June 16, 2011, aims to guide the United States in the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being. The Strategy prioritizes prevention by integrating recommendations and actions across multiple settings to improve health and save lives. The Strategy identifies four Strategic Directions and seven targeted Priorities.
6. Time to Act: Investing in the Health of Our Children and Our Communities. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Commission to Build a Healthier America. (2014). This report summarizes the latest recommendations from the Commission to Build a Healthier America, concluding that we must fundamentally change how we revitalize neighborhoods by fully integrating health into community development.
(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)
1. A guide for health impact assessment. Bhatia, R. (2010, October). California Department of Public Health. This guide provides background on health impact assessment, outlines key steps, activities, and issues that may be faced, and identifies additional resources for health impact assessment.
2. A health impact assessment toolkit: A handbook to conducting HIA(3rd ed.). Human Impact Partners. (2011, February). Oakland, CA. This toolkit provides hands-on tools for organizations interested in conducting a Health Impact Assessment (HIA). In addition to describing the steps of the actual HIA process, it provides guidance on how to decide whether an HIA is appropriate, how to determine the scope and management of a HIA, and how to collaborate with stakeholders during the process.
3. Health impact assessment: A tool for promoting health in all policies. Gottlieb, L., Egerter, S., & Braveman, P. (2011, May). Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This document provides a brief overview of health impact assessment, with examples of how it has been used and how it can support Health in All Policies. It also provides brief examples of how health impact assessment has been used in the United States.
4. Minimum elements and practice standards for health impact assessment (Version 2). North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group. (Bhatia, R., Branscomb, J., Farhang, L., Lee, M., Orenstein, M., & Richardson, M.). (2010, November). Oakland, CA. This reference document gives guidance on health impact assessment (HIA) from two angles: 1) standards on the “minimum elements” that an HIA must include and 2) practice standards that help to conduct high quality HIA.
Northwest HIA Network:
The Northwest HIA Network is a diverse group of over 250 professionals from government agencies, nonprofit and advocacy groups, health care organizations, and private sector companies. We share a common interest in incorporating health into decision making. The Network meets four times a year to increase communication, encourage collaboration and build our collective capacity for HIA.
National Association of County and City Health Officials Toolkit:
The NACCHO Environmental Public Health HiAP Project aims to increase awareness among decision makers about the environmental public health implications of policies and to build the capacity of local health departments to be involved in cross-sector work with the goal of improving the health of the community.
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials fact sheets:
ASTHO has developed a series of transportation, land use, and community design cross-sectoral, evidence-based policy guides. The guides were developed using multiple resources from credible sources that catalogue policies that link other sectors and health.
Society of Practitioners of HIA (SOPHIA):
SOPHIA is an organization serving the needs of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practitioners in North America and worldwide. Developed by a working group from the 2010 HIA in the Americas Workshop, SOPHIA aims to provide leadership and promote excellence in the practice of HIA. By promoting and practicing a thorough and systematic consideration of health in decision-making, SOPHIA will help achieve better health for all.