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(listed in chronological order, most recent first)
(updated September 16, 2008)
California
AB
1472 (2007) "California Healthy Places Act of 2008"
(Leno)
Status:
Suspended in Appropriations Committee, August 2007
Appropriation: Estimated $2.8
million/year through FY 2009-2010
Official summary
"The bill would require the State Public Health Officer to form
an interagency working group (IWG)...to, among other things, identify,
evaluate, and disseminate available evidence, information, programs,
and best practices on environmental health, and establish environmental
health goals, as provided. The bill would also…establish
a program within the State Department of Public Health to guide and
support cities and counties in conducting health impact assessments,
as provided. The program would, among other things, provide funding,
technical assistance, and training to eligible local entities, as
defined, to prepare health impact assessments, as provided….The
bill would also require the State Public Health Officer, in collaboration
with the IWG…to develop guidelines relating to the creation
of a local entity's health impact assessments of land use, housing,
and transportation policy and plans, as provided."
Maryland
HB
1196 (2008), HB
1034 (2007) "Maryland Healthy Places Act" (Oaks)
Status:
Inactive?
Appropriation: $80,000-$100,000
annually
Official Summary
"…establish a pilot program that provides funding and technical assistance to prepare health impact assessments. The purpose of the public health impact assessments is to:
- facilitate State and local health official involvement in community planning and land use decisions to identify any potential health concern relating to an activity or proposed activity;
- provide for an investigation of any health-related issue addressed in an environmental impact statement or policy appraisal relating to an activity or a proposed activity;
- describe and compare alternatives to an activity or proposed activity; and
- contribute to the findings of an environmental impact statement with respect to the terms and conditions of implementing an activity or proposed activity, as necessary.
"The Secretary may collaborate with specified State departments, or any other State agency the Secretary deems appropriate, in developing the guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans. Program grants will be awarded to a unit of local government with jurisdiction of individuals or populations whose health will be affected by an activity or proposed activity. The assessments conducted must evaluate the effect of modifications of the physical or social environment on public health and social and economic development."
Massachusetts
SB
2572 (2007) "An Act to Create Environmental Justice"
(Incorporates SB 129 (Barrios) and SB 2184 (Wilkerson))
Status:
In Ways and Means Committee (inactive?)
Appropriation: not stated
Summary
Section 6 of the proposed bill would require health impact assessment of proposed projects if such projects are in or might affect vulnerable communities. Even if a proposed project does not require "environmental notification," a petition of 10 or more persons could request an HIA. The bill specifies required content of HIAs and procedures, including public comment and participation. It also requires mitigation measures to minimize the potential negative health impacts
Washington
SB
6099 (2007) "An act relating to a state route number 520 expansion
impact plan mediator." (Murray)
Status:
Passed
Appropriation: None
Summary
This bill requires the replacement of the state route 520 bridge to include a health impact assessment to determine the project's impact on public health issues.
2SSB 6195 (2006) "An act relating to health impact assessments" (Franklin)
Status: Passed
Appropriation: None
Official summary
"The State Board of Health (Board) in collaboration with the Governor's Interagency Council on Health Disparities (Council) creates health impact assessments. The Council was created to promote and facilitate communication and collaboration among state agencies, communities of color, and the public and private sector, to address health disparities. A health impact assessment is defined as a systematic review of a legislative or budgetary proposal or other public policy, program, or practice to determine the extent to which such proposal, policy, program, or practice improves or exacerbates health disparities."
West Virginia
SB 558 (2007) (Manchin and others)
Status: Stalled in committee
Appropriation: Unknown
Summary
Would require the state Bureau of Environmental Protection to conduct health impact assessments whenever the DEP proposes changes to air or water pollution standards.
(print and broadcast)
2008
- "Health impact assessment raises ire among development community." Jessie Faulkner. The Times-Standard (Eureka, CA), September 3, 2008.
- "Baldwin Hills Neighbors Oppose Oil Drilling" KFI 640 AM (Los Angeles, CA), August 27, 2008.
- "Glenwood Springs City Council wants a health impact statement from BLM." Pete Fowler. Glenwood Springs Post Independent (Glenwood, CO), August 22, 2008.
- "Public health comes into play when sick days aren't paid." Shari Roan. Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2008.
- "Local initiatives in healthy planning" (Op-ed). Merilee D. Kerr. Metroscape (Portland, OR), Summer 2008.
- "Good Planning Good Health: An interview with Rajiv Bhatia" Metroscape (Portland, OR), Summer 2008.
- "Humboldt County becomes the first to make health impact assessment part of planning." Carol Harrison. The Eureka Reporter (Eureka, CA), April 8, 2008.
- "Chevron expects to be in De Beque area a long time." Daniel Webb. Grand Junction Sentinel (Grand Junction, CO), April 4, 2008.
- "Concerned citizens request Health Impact Assessment for PAPA." Dawn Ballou. Pinedale Online! (Pinedale, WY), March 27, 2008.
2005-2007
- Comprehensive effort needed for better health (Editorial). The Olympian (Olympia, WA). September 17, 2007.
- "Rising from the light rail, a gathering place." Debera Carolton Harrell. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 12, 2007.
- "Let the new state Route 520 take us down a healthier road" (Op-Ed). Kathy B. McLeod. Seattle Post Intelligencer, Sunday, December 10, 2006.
- "Belt Line Will Make Atlanta Healthier" (Op-Ed). William G. Baker, Jr. Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 17, 2005.
2008
Bhatia R, Wernham A. 2008. Integrating Human Health into Environmental Impact Assessment: An Unrealized Opportunity for Environmental Health and Justice. Environmental Health Perspectives 116(8).
Farhang L, Bhatia R, Scully CC, Corburn J, Gaydos M, Malekafzali S. 2008. Creating tools for healthy development: case study of San Francisco's Eastern Neighborhoods Community Health Impact Assessment. J Public Health Manag Pract. 14(3):255-65.
Dannenberg AL, Bhatia R, Cole BL, Heaton SK, Feldman JD, Rutt CD. 2008. Use of health impact assessment in the U.S.: 27 case studies, 1999-2007. Am J Prev Med. 34(3):241-56.
Patz J, Campbell-Lendrum D, Gibbs H, Woodruff R. 2008. Health impact assessment of global climate change: expanding on comparative risk assessment approaches for policy making. Annu Rev Public Health. 29:27-39.
2007
Bhatia R. 2007. Protecting health using an environmental impact assessment: a case study of San Francisco land use decisionmaking. Am J Public Health. 97(3):406-13.
Cole BL, Fielding JE. Health impact assessment: a tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care. Annu Rev Public Health. 2007;28:393-412.
Corburn J, Bhatia R. 2007. Health impact assessment in San Francisco: Incorporating the social determinants of health into environmental planning. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 50(3):323-341.
(See HIA Training Resources under "Methods" for on-line training guides)
Alaska Inter-Tribal Center for Health Impact Assessment
Alaska Inter-Tribal Council
445 East Fifth Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-563-9334, 1-800-995-9334
Fax: 907-563-9337
Contact email: aitc@aitc.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health (CDC NCEH)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone:404-639-3311
Contact E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov
Georgia Tech Center for Quality Growth & Regional Development (CQGRD)
Center for Quality Growth & Regional Development
College of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology
760 Spring Street, Suite 213
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1028
Phone: 404-385-5133
fax: 404-385-5127
Contact e-mail: cqgrd@coa.gatech.edu
Human Impact Partners
Human Impact Partners
274 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-740-0143 or 510-740-0144
Fax: 510-808-0378
Contact E-mail: jch@humanimpact.org
San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability
San Francisco Department of Public Health
1390 Market St., Suite 910
San Francisco, Ca 94102
Phone:415-252-3800
Contact E-mail: megan.wier@sfdph.org
UCLA Health Impact Assessment Group
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772, Room 61-253 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: 310-206-4253
Fax: 310-206-7096
Email: blcole@ucla.edu
* 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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