{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"Cynthia Stone","doi":"10.18060/27670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/27670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maxim Gakh, Courtney Coughenour, Emily Strickler, Megan R. McDonough, Priyambda Kumra, Jennifer R. Pharr, Timothy Bungum, Nicole Bungum, Mindy Meacham
Background: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a public health tool to evaluate how choices made outside the health sector can affect health. HIAs are utilized in transportation, housing, planning, and other fields. Since the built environment can impact community health outcomes, including physical activity rates, injuries, and overweight and obesity, an interdisciplinary team composed of public health, planning, transportation, and land use professionals conducted an HIA in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Methods: The HIA consisted of (1) screening, (2) scoping, (3) assessment, (4) recommendations, (5) reporting, and (6) monitoring and evaluation. It examined proposed physical improvements to a 0.66 mile stretch of a major arterial roadway in the City of Las Vegas where nearby residents experience many health inequities. Collection and analysis of land use and survey data, analysis of secondary data, and literature reviews were completed to predict potential health effects produced by built environment changes. Stakeholder feedback informed each HIA step.
Results: The HIA generated recommendations to improve physical activity, reduce pedestrian and bicyclist injury rates, and decrease obesity and overweight prevalence, by presenting “good,” “better,” and “best” physical infrastructure improvements. The process and resulting recommendations enhanced collaboration among health and nonhealth sectors.
Conclusions: Data and analysis revealed that the proposed changes could improve walkability and bikeability and reduce pedestrian and bicyclist injury. By encouraging active transportation through bicycling and walking, the plan could, over time, contribute to reduced overweight and obesity. The HIA facilitated inter-sector cross collaboration and the integration of health into future decision-making.
{"title":"Enhancing Health through Built Environment Improvement: A Southern Nevada Health Impact Assessment Case Study","authors":"Maxim Gakh, Courtney Coughenour, Emily Strickler, Megan R. McDonough, Priyambda Kumra, Jennifer R. Pharr, Timothy Bungum, Nicole Bungum, Mindy Meacham","doi":"10.18060/27673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/27673","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a public health tool to evaluate how choices made outside the health sector can affect health. HIAs are utilized in transportation, housing, planning, and other fields. Since the built environment can impact community health outcomes, including physical activity rates, injuries, and overweight and obesity, an interdisciplinary team composed of public health, planning, transportation, and land use professionals conducted an HIA in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 Methods: The HIA consisted of (1) screening, (2) scoping, (3) assessment, (4) recommendations, (5) reporting, and (6) monitoring and evaluation. It examined proposed physical improvements to a 0.66 mile stretch of a major arterial roadway in the City of Las Vegas where nearby residents experience many health inequities. Collection and analysis of land use and survey data, analysis of secondary data, and literature reviews were completed to predict potential health effects produced by built environment changes. Stakeholder feedback informed each HIA step.
 Results: The HIA generated recommendations to improve physical activity, reduce pedestrian and bicyclist injury rates, and decrease obesity and overweight prevalence, by presenting “good,” “better,” and “best” physical infrastructure improvements. The process and resulting recommendations enhanced collaboration among health and nonhealth sectors.
 Conclusions: Data and analysis revealed that the proposed changes could improve walkability and bikeability and reduce pedestrian and bicyclist injury. By encouraging active transportation through bicycling and walking, the plan could, over time, contribute to reduced overweight and obesity. The HIA facilitated inter-sector cross collaboration and the integration of health into future decision-making.","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"37 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pew Announcement - Health Impact Project","authors":"Ruth Lindberg","doi":"10.18060/27676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/27676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"27 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Society of Practitioners of Health Impace Assessment","authors":"Sandra Whitehead","doi":"10.18060/27671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/27671","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"4 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittany E. Sigler, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Lindsay Thompson, Cyrus Y. Engineer, Sara Singer, Darrell Gaskin
Background: Consumer technology products are changing lifestyle behaviors like how we eat, how we sleep, and how we get around, but existing research has not examined whether they are being designed to promote healthy choices. This study assesses the health impact of two products, Snapchat and Uber, through the lens of their companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We use an exploratory multiple case design to present how health might be considered as a growth strategy for consumer technology products. Using publicly available material, we analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for the products’ design, policy, and implementation to promote health.
Results: This distinct approach to health impact assessment successfully revealed existing organizational beliefs and practices with health impact. Snapchat’s social media platform fosters social interaction but lacks responsible design features, while Uber’s mobility platform has safety and privacy measures but lacks focus on physical activities as forms of mobility.
Conclusions: By using these products, positive health impact is possible: whether through social connection and information access (Snapchat), or increased mobility and physical activity (Uber). This case study highlights the untapped potential of intentionally designing products to influence health behaviors and promote health, especially through new uses of existing features. Leveraging external partnerships and subject matter experts will be crucial for success, but companies that choose to do so and embrace a health-positive mindset will lay a foundation for a replicable business strategy for those too reticent to lead in this nascent field.
{"title":"A Case Study Analysis of how Products Might be Designed to Promote Health","authors":"Brittany E. Sigler, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Lindsay Thompson, Cyrus Y. Engineer, Sara Singer, Darrell Gaskin","doi":"10.18060/27675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/27675","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Consumer technology products are changing lifestyle behaviors like how we eat, how we sleep, and how we get around, but existing research has not examined whether they are being designed to promote healthy choices. This study assesses the health impact of two products, Snapchat and Uber, through the lens of their companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Methods: We use an exploratory multiple case design to present how health might be considered as a growth strategy for consumer technology products. Using publicly available material, we analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for the products’ design, policy, and implementation to promote health.
 Results: This distinct approach to health impact assessment successfully revealed existing organizational beliefs and practices with health impact. Snapchat’s social media platform fosters social interaction but lacks responsible design features, while Uber’s mobility platform has safety and privacy measures but lacks focus on physical activities as forms of mobility.
 Conclusions: By using these products, positive health impact is possible: whether through social connection and information access (Snapchat), or increased mobility and physical activity (Uber). This case study highlights the untapped potential of intentionally designing products to influence health behaviors and promote health, especially through new uses of existing features. Leveraging external partnerships and subject matter experts will be crucial for success, but companies that choose to do so and embrace a health-positive mindset will lay a foundation for a replicable business strategy for those too reticent to lead in this nascent field.","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"3 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Health Impact Assessment in an Online Format","authors":"K. P. Pollack Porter","doi":"10.18060/26688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/26688","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44058534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Lectures: Increasing Student Knowledge of Health in All Policies by Using the Health Impact Checklist","authors":"Tatiana Lin, Wyatt Beckman, V. Collie-Akers","doi":"10.18060/26687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/26687","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41581239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background: Urban tree canopies help to address issues of climate change related to all dimensions of health. Certain areas of the city of Indianapolis are more prone to the negative effects that lack of tree coverage can cause. This assessment explored the short term and potential long-term impacts of the efforts to increase the tree canopy coverage in vulnerable areas of Indianapolis. This effort was a collaboration of faculty members from the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis Department of Public Works, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, and the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability. Methods: Our team used the standard seven-step Health Impact Assessment (HIA) process to make the recommendations provided. Using direct observation of the neighborhood, secondary data collection, literature review, and a key stakeholder interview, we examined key dimensions of health including environmental, physical, and personal health outcomes resulting from increased tree canopy coverage within census tract 3505 of Marion County, Indiana. Results: Increasing the percentage of tree canopy coverage in census tract 3505 – Crown Hill has significant positive health impacts with minimal negative outcomes. Such impacts may be, but are not subject to, lower temperatures, reduced cases of respiratory and cardiac infections/illnesses, promoting animal life, increasing neighborhood property values and filtering pollutants that resultfrom human production activity. Conclusions: Further implementation of the Thrive Indianapolis project has broad positive implications for the community members living in this area. While few negative implications were found, we make recommendations to mitigate these effects while attempting to supplement the current project plan with a focus on the effects to human health.
{"title":"Health Impact Assessment: The Impacts of Increasing Tree Canopy Coverage in Marion County, Indiana","authors":"Haleigh Kampman, Annika Whitlock, Heidi Hosler","doi":"10.18060/26686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/26686","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Urban tree canopies help to address issues of climate change related to all dimensions of health. Certain areas of the city of Indianapolis are more prone to the negative effects that lack of tree coverage can cause. This assessment explored the short term and potential long-term impacts of the efforts to increase the tree canopy coverage in vulnerable areas of Indianapolis. This effort was a collaboration of faculty members from the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis Department of Public Works, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, and the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability. \u0000Methods: Our team used the standard seven-step Health Impact Assessment (HIA) process to make the recommendations provided. Using direct observation of the neighborhood, secondary data collection, literature review, and a key stakeholder interview, we examined key dimensions of health including environmental, physical, and personal health outcomes resulting from increased tree canopy coverage within census tract 3505 of Marion County, Indiana. \u0000Results: Increasing the percentage of tree canopy coverage in census tract 3505 – Crown Hill has significant positive health impacts with minimal negative outcomes. Such impacts may be, but are not subject to, lower temperatures, reduced cases of respiratory and cardiac infections/illnesses, promoting animal life, increasing neighborhood property values and filtering pollutants that resultfrom human production activity. \u0000Conclusions: Further implementation of the Thrive Indianapolis project has broad positive implications for the community members living in this area. While few negative implications were found, we make recommendations to mitigate these effects while attempting to supplement the current project plan with a focus on the effects to human health.","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47773100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There are few academic institutions in the United States currently offering courses on Health Impact Assessment (HIA). This commentary describes a PhD student’s experience in building a receptive audience for an HIA course within the Urban Planning and Policy program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, how they went about developing the course, and details about the course and its implementation. Key lessons learned from the experience of developing and implementing the course include: having a real-life HIA project for students to work on can be challenging but very rewarding, for both students and partners; utilizing virtual meeting technology to invite guest lecturers from across the world provided an enriching learning experience; and providing clear milestones and setting deadlines for different components of the HIA is helpful for students as they work through the different HIA steps. While the course was successful by almost all metrics, institutionalizing HIA courses within interdisciplinary planning/public health programsremains an ongoing challenge.
{"title":"Building a Receptive Audience for HIA: A PhD Student's Journey to Create a HIA Course","authors":"L. Realmuto","doi":"10.18060/26689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/26689","url":null,"abstract":"There are few academic institutions in the United States currently offering courses on Health Impact Assessment (HIA). This commentary describes a PhD student’s experience in building a receptive audience for an HIA course within the Urban Planning and Policy program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, how they went about developing the course, and details about the course and its implementation. Key lessons learned from the experience of developing and implementing the course include: having a real-life HIA project for students to work on can be challenging but very rewarding, for both students and partners; utilizing virtual meeting technology to invite guest lecturers from across the world provided an enriching learning experience; and providing clear milestones and setting deadlines for different components of the HIA is helpful for students as they work through the different HIA steps. While the course was successful by almost all metrics, institutionalizing HIA courses within interdisciplinary planning/public health programsremains an ongoing challenge.","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49238334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandra Whitehead, J. Dills, Emily Bever, Ruth Lindberg
The Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment (MEPS) outline the minimum elements that need to be addressed for a study to be considered a health impact assessment (HIA), as well as best practices for how an HIA should be conducted. The document was originally created by a group of leading HIA practitioners in 2009. Since then, it has been updated twice to reflect the evolution of HIA as a practice and the expanded use of HIA as a tool to implement health in all policies. This commentary describes current efforts to revise the MEPS—the first update in six years.
{"title":"Updating the Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for HIA to Reflect Evolution in the Field of Practice","authors":"Sandra Whitehead, J. Dills, Emily Bever, Ruth Lindberg","doi":"10.18060/25082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18060/25082","url":null,"abstract":"The Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment (MEPS) outline the minimum elements that need to be addressed for a study to be considered a health impact assessment (HIA), as well as best practices for how an HIA should be conducted. The document was originally created by a group of leading HIA practitioners in 2009. Since then, it has been updated twice to reflect the evolution of HIA as a practice and the expanded use of HIA as a tool to implement health in all policies. This commentary describes current efforts to revise the MEPS—the first update in six years.","PeriodicalId":93273,"journal":{"name":"Chronicles of health impact assessment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41262464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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