Health Impact Assessment for Healthy Places: A Guide for Planning and Public Health

1. Module 3: Scoping Goal: The goal of scoping is to identify issues that should be addressed in the HIA and describe key aspects of the health status and demographics of the population that will serve as a baseline to assess health impacts. Health Impact Assessment for Healthy Places:A Guide for Planning and Public Health

2. Define scoping and describe steps Assess which impacts are likely to be important and can be addressed Identify the types of information to gather Determine indicators for analysis Determine geographical, temporal, and population parameters Determine how community members can contribute Define the challenges Module 3: Objectives

3. Establishes the foundation for conducting the health impact assessment Designs and plans the HIA Highlights key issues that will be considered The Purpose of Scoping

4. 1. Establish ground rules 2. Define the HIA 3. Gather baseline information 4. Specify what impacts to assess 5. Create a logic framework summarizing the relevant causal linkages 6. Consider assessment models Steps in the Scoping Process

5. Clarify roles of stakeholders and partners Determine who has final authority to decide the scope of the HIA Set timelines Establish responsibility for convening meetings and other administrative tasks Establish Ground Rules

6. Establish boundaries for the HIA: Geographical Temporal Population Identify needed resources Identify partners Describe the intended impacts Define the HIA

7. Describe the characteristics of the population Identify at-risk groups Describe the health status of the population Define environmental conditions of the target population Identify quality and quantity of affordable housing Baseline Information Gathering

8. Gray literature Peer reviewed literature Key informants or stakeholders who provide local information Experts in relevant fields who can identify the health related outcomes Finding the Information

9. Qualitative Is easier Takes less time Quantitative Is more complicated May require modeling skills Needs high quality baseline and impact data Results are often “viewed” as more credible What Impacts to Assess?

10. The purpose of a logic framework is to: Organize existing knowledge Communicate information Guide analysis Create a Logic Framework

11. Identify how the policy or project will affect health Identify the health outcomes of interest Creating a Logic Framework

12. Walk to School Logic Framework Policy/ Proximal/Intermediate Health Project Impacts Outcomes walkability Education: safety training safety Engineering: improve pedestrian facilities, traffic calming Motor vehicle use Injury Air and noise pollution Asthma Enforcement: increase police presence, crossing guards Obesity Dedicated resources: walking school busses Physical activity (short-term)

13. Checklists can also be used • Lots of different checklists available • They perform the same duty as a logic model and one is not superior to the other – it just depends on what people are more comfortable using

14. Most will use a combination of models using quantitative and qualitative data Quantitative HIAs should not be seen as superior to qualitative HIAs The most important point is that the HIA has an impact on the decision Consider Assessment Models

15. Identify: potential health pathways and equity effects available research methods and data sources potential mitigation strategies Develop research questions Community Contributions

16. Participate in a collaborative scoping exercise Determine the highest priority HIA questions and tasks Assist project staff to synthesize highest priority community issues Actions for Steering Committee

17. Identifying and prioritizing impacts Finding sufficient information to complete the HIA Having enough resources to gather needed information Keeping the feedback channels open throughout the process Challenges to Scoping