Greater Manchester Health Impact Assessment on Vitamin D

1. Greater Manchester Health Impact Assessment on Vitamin D Helen Turner RD GM Programme Manager for Healthy Weight

2. Greater Manchester Healthy Start Group Aims: • To increase the uptake of healthy start vouchers • Training • Make Healthy Start a priority within commissioning structures. • Target those families that don’t present • Promote Healthy Start to local retailers • Develop a communication strategy to promote Healthy Start to various target groups. • To increase the uptake of healthy start vitamin vouchers • By completing a HIA

3. What is HIA? • A combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its’ potential effects on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. (WHO 1999) • HIA aims to inform and influence decision- making to enhance the positive impacts of any decision and reduce (or eliminate) any negative impacts.

4. Health Impact Assessment • Stages in getting a HIA done • Screening • Scoping ☼ • Conduct Assessment ☼ • Doing a HIA • Policy Analysis ☼ • Profiling of communities • Qualitative and quantitative data collection • Impact analysis • Establish priority impacts • Recommendations developed • Process Evaluation • Stages in getting a HIA done continued • Report on health impacts and policy options • Monitoring • Impact and outcome evaluation

5. Aims and Objectives • Aim – to consider the health impacts of the Healthy Start vitamins with regard to Vitamin D across Greater Manchester. • Objectives– to consider: • The health impacts of universal supplementation of population sub groups such as: ☼ All pregnant women ☼ All women - postnatal (up to a year after birth) ☼ Children up to their 4th birthday • Identify potential barriers to access Healthy Start vitamin supplementation 3. Examine potential health impacts of the universal supplementation across the defined population sub groups.