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HIA Guide Pathways Pathway pages summarize research on common pathways through which policies and projects may affect human health, such as air pollution, education, nutrition and physical activity. HIAs need to consider two sets of linkages for each relevant pathway: first, how the proposed policy or project affects these determinants of health and secondly, how changes in these determinants affect health outcomes. Sectors HIA is most valuable when it provides policy-makers and stakeholders with compelling, actionable information about potentially un- or under-recognized health impacts of proposed policies and projects. While HIAs can provide useful information about proposed public health policies, it is in other sectors that HIA is most likely to provide new information. Although advancing public health goals may not be the primary rationale for proposed transportation projects, education reform and economic policies, these and other actions in other sectors can have significant public health impacts. Each of the pages in this section provides a short synopsis of how policies and projects in a given sector are likely to affect the public’s health. Links are provided to more thorough reviews and to organizations specializing in the analysis of policies and projects in each sector. Methods Health impact assessment draws on multiple methodologies from a broad array of research disciplines. In this section you will find outlines of basic HIA procedures, along with summaries of ancillary methodologies and data sources commonly used in HIAs. Links are provided to outside websites providing more information. * The HIA-CLIC website was developed by the UCLA Health Impact Assessment (UCLA-HIA) Project with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Updated 9/27/2008
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