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,...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an approach which is becoming more attractive to governments who wish to operationalize Health in all Policies (HiAP), a health promotion strategy that aims to improve population health. In 2002,  in order to meet this objective, the...

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...