This paper compares three approaches to incorporating health and equity into urban planning: health impact assessment (HIA); seconding public health professionals to local government; and community-driven planning, by studying recent New Zealand cases.
Health impact assessment publications
Publications relating to health impact assessment in New Zealand.
Note: These publications are not health impact assessments – these are available in the HIA evaluation section.
Publications
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Published 02 September 2011This paper explores how a health impact assessment (HIA) process was used to forge closer links between health and urban design agendas in Manukau City.
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Published 02 August 2011The Health Impact Assessment carried out for the Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme in 2008 was one of the first stand-alone project-level HIAs (ie, within the context of the Resource Management Act 1991) in New Zealand, and it received a critical reception. This paper describes useful lessons learnt from an evaluation of this HIA and makes recommendations for future practice.
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Published 02 June 2011This publication reviews those Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) (including the WOHIAs) funded as part of the Learning by Doing initiative in 2007/08 and 2008/09.
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Published 05 August 2010Are Health Impact Assessments worthwhile? Answering this question involves evaluating HIAs, and the purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on the evaluation of HIAs in New Zealand. It brings together a diverse range of national and international views to provide a starting point for those undertaking HIA evaluation.
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Published 02 April 2007The Whānau Ora Health Impact Assessment tool is a formal approach used to predict the potential health effects of a policy on Māori and their whānau. It pays particular attention to Māori involvement in the policy development process and articulates the role of the wider health determinants in influencing health and well-being outcomes.
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Published 01 March 2007The good health and wellbeing of the population is largely a product of the settings in which people live, work and play. This means that improving the health and wellbeing of the population requires more than the provision of health care services. It requires new ways of working together with new approaches and new tools (PHAC 2006).
Page last updated: 24 February 2012
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