International HIA manuals and guides

There is a range of HIA manuals and guides produced internationally.

This section of the website provides links to such guides on other websites.

WHO Directory of Resources

HIA Connect List of Manuals and Guides

London Health Commission A Short Guide to Health Impact Assessment
This guide introduces you to the key features of health impact assessment

Liverpool Public Health Observatory Health Impact Assessment A ten minute guide
This leaflet is designed for newcomers to HIA – to define what it is, what it aims to do, the key concepts and principles on which it is based and how it can be applied.

Mental Health Well-being Impact Assessment Toolkit
This new edition of the Mental Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA) toolkit has been published by the ational Mental Health Development Unit in partnership with the English National MWIA Collaborative.

The toolkit helps support national, regional and local services and systems across health, local government, the voluntary, community and private sector to embed mental well-being into their work. This version builds on the earlier MWIA Toolkit published in 2007.

Rapid appraisal tool for health impact assessment
Health impact assessment has been developed to support people from different backgrounds and different situations in the assessment of a proposal's potential impacts on health. This rapid appraisal tool (sometimes known as the RAT Tool) enables users to understand better the health impacts of a proposal and to apply this information in policy decision-making.

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