Tools to assess health impacts of land-use policies and programs : an introduction to health impact assessment and evaluation for land-use agencies

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services.
• Description:
  Land-use agencies such as local, state, and national parks and natural resource departments play a key role in determining how public lands are designed and utilized. The decisions these organizations make can affect the mental, physical, and social well-being of the communities they serve. By predicting or monitoring the health outcomes related to individual land-use decisions, agencies help to improve the health of their communities. The analyses conducted can provide decision-makers with valuable information regarding the interaction between a specific program, project, or policy and its effect on public health.
  
  Land-use agencies can examine the health outcomes of their actions using two public health tools: health impact assessment (HIA) and evaluation. This fact sheet provides information about HIA and evaluation, as well as background material that will help guide land-use agencies to consider health when making decisions about effective ways to use public lands.
  
  CS216341
  
  
• Subjects:
  Environmental Health Environment Design Health Promotion Public Policy
• Source:
  Healthy community design fact sheet series
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:57bbb7c4d124a8904ae09a47be5dfd2b7cae9892341790d943db44774b0e97f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24133/cdc_24133_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 768.57 KB ]