HIA Support Unit
The New Zealand Health Impact Assessment Support Unit is a New Zealand wide service responsible to the Office of the Director of Public Health, part of the Ministry of Health, based in Wellington.
The New Zealand Health Impact Assessment Support Unit has been established as part of a wider strategy to improve health and reduce inequalities in New Zealand.
Overall aims
- To contribute to improving health and reduce health inequalities in New Zealand
- To embed health impact assessment into public policy and establish it as good practice to support better and more informed decision making.
What we do
- Raise awareness about health impact assessment and the tools available to undertake health impact assessment, and promote HIA good practice
- Support the development and effective use of the health impact assessment approach in New Zealand through building partnerships with key statutory, voluntary, community and private organisations in.
- Provide technical advice, guidance and support to those who are in the process of starting or undertaking an health impact assessment
- Build up an evidence base of information, tips, case studies, and good in New Zealand and overseas and contribute to the provision of new research that will inform and improve judgements about the potential impacts of policies, programmes and projects on health
- Create, and maintain capacity through the provision of awareness raising presentations, training sessions in the use of HIA, its value and benefits within and across organisations and the facilitation of rapid appraisals.
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Page last updated: 11 January 2010
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