Slides for my keynote address at the HIA20120 Conference in Quebec http://www.hia2012.ca/

1. Fit for More Than One Purpose
Typologies, Theory and Evaluation in Health Impact Assessment
Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
Ben Harris-Roxas
Consultant, Harris-Roxas Health
Conjoint Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Health Section Co-Chair, International Association for Impact Assessment

3. Protect health
Promote health
Reduce health inequities

5. Mandated
Decision Support
Advocacy
Community Led
Harris-Roxas B, Harris E (2011) Differing Forms, Differing Purposes: A Typology of Health Impact
Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 31(4):396-403. doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2010.03.003

6. Mandated

7. Decision Support

8. Advocacy

9. Community Led

10. Mandated
Decision Support
Advocacy
Community Led
Harris-Roxas B, Harris E (2011) Differing Forms, Differing Purposes: A Typology of Health Impact
Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 31(4):396-403. doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2010.03.003

11. Harris E, Baum F, Harris-Roxas B, Kemp L, Spickett J, Keleher H, HarrisM, Morgan R, Dannenberg A, Sukkumnoed
D, Wendel A. The effectiveness of health impact assessments conducted in Australia and New Zealand; Australian
Research Council Discovery Project Grants; 2010-2011. [DP1096211]

12. Protect health
Promote health
Reduce health inequities
Improve governance & public decision-making
Learning

13. Personal
Organisational
Social

14. Technical
Conceptual
Social
Glasbergen P. Learning to manage the environment. In: Lafferty W, Meadowcroft J, (eds). Democracy and the
environment: problems and prospects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; 1999. p. 175–93.

15. Take away messages
• Typology - there’s more than one form of HIA and they have
different purposes
• Learning from HIAs takes different forms – technical, conceptual
and social
• It’s important to examine both purpose and types of learning
when evaluating HIAs

16. HIA is fit for more than one purpose

17. Acknowledgements
• The HIA2012 organisers
• The International Association for Impact Assessment’s Health
Section for their ongoing support and ideas
• The University of New South Wales Centre for Primary Health
Care and Equity for their ongoing collaboration

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