This document examines four different Impact Assessment approaches that are used in Canada, including Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Risk Assessment. Various types of impact assessment are practised...

This paper focuses on how HIA invites health practitioners to take not only the impacts on the health of the population into consideration, but also how these impacts could have differential effects on some groups of the population. HIA and Inequities5 pages  ...

One of the mandates of the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) is to inform Canadian public health actors about effective strategies for promoting the adoption of healthy public policies. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is currently the...

With the goal of sharing the various experiences that form HIA as it is practised in Canada, the NCCHPP presents information about different initiatives in the field. Among these is the PATH (People Assessing Their Health) network initiative in Nova Scotia. In 2008,...

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...