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Getting HIA Considered in Planning

Getting HIA Considered in Planning. Brendan Bonner Western IFH Manager Public Health Agency. Times they Are A Changing. Traditional Medical or Biomedical Model of Planning in HSC Balance is shifting to a socio-economic model Health – Socio-economic, Cultural and Environmental Factors.

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Getting HIA Considered in Planning

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  1. Getting HIA Considered in Planning Brendan Bonner Western IFH Manager Public Health Agency Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  2. Times they Are A Changing • Traditional Medical or Biomedical Model of Planning in HSC • Balance is shifting to a socio-economic model • Health – Socio-economic, Cultural and Environmental Factors. • Improving Health Must Focus on the Wider Determinants Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  3. IFH Commitment on HIA (2002) Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  4. The Link • The social goal for health improvement can be the fundamental justification for and purpose of planning. • We can work together to make a difference • Its not about telling others what to or how to do it – its working with you Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  5. Sustainable Development Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  6. Challenge To HSC • Need to understand spatial planning process • Need to feed into the process – effectively and appropriately • Allocate resources for partnership working and capacity building Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  7. Challenge to Planners • Understand the wider determinants of health • Identify the stages in the process where input from HSC can add value • Actively engage with us Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  8. Rationale for WIFH • Keen to see evidence-based information on issues concerning the public • Health Improvement Indicators • Support Decision Makers • See the shift in Focusing Resources on H.I. rather than Remediation • Economic Sense Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  9. Where Do You Start Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  10. Where Do You Start • Training and Capacity Building • Awareness • Multi Sectoral/ Multi Professional • Not a H.S.C. Responsibility • Sense of Ownership/Responsibility • Leadership – preferably not HSC • Ask the Question – Would a HIA Suit This Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  11. 3 Easy Steps • Confidence Building – try out • Screening Tool – useful for any basic process • Get Familiar with gathering evidence and refer to it/use it Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  12. How Do You Know Progress • Your asked - What’s a HIA? • Why haven't I been consulted on HIAs? • Would a HIA been good for this? • Others refer to the reports • You see the results in the product • Others try to ignore the process Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  13. WIFH HIAs To Date • Dove Gardens • West Tyrone Area Plan • Strabane DC Air Quality Strategy • Fuel Poverty – Impact of Warm Homes Scheme • Consultation Tool – Liquor Licence Review • Potential DARD Rural Poverty Project Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  14. HIA and Public Health Agency • PHA joint Commissioner £4.5bm • Health Improvement a Priority • Performance Management Focus on Outcomes • Need to Demonstrate Effectiveness/Impact • Opportunity to Promote HIA as a Tool Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  15. HIA and Future Partnership • New Role for Councils – HI Pilots • Power of Well Being and Community Planning • Opportunity as a Tool for Joint Planning • Other Impact Assessments – Environmental, Economic, Equality, Human Rights Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

  16. Thanks for Listening Improving Your Health and Wellbeing

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