Source of tools

Name of the tool
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

Where is tool available from
The tool is available from:
IMPACT Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool, L69 3GB.
Tel 0151 5303/5573 Fax 0151 794 5588
Email: impact@liv.ac.uk
http://www.ihia.org.uk

When was the tool produced
1997 (Scott-Samuel A, Birly M and Ardern K (1998). The Merseyside Guidelines for health impact assessment. Liverpool: Merseyside Health Impact Assessment Steering Group. http://www.liv.ac.uk/~mhb)

Is support provided
No

Organisation/s that developed the tool and country of origin
Country where the tool was produced: UK

Organisation and author/s that produced the tool:
There is no one definitive methodology to HIA although several toolkits are currently being developed. The Merseyside Guidelines (Scott-Samuel A, Birly M and Ardern K (1998). The Merseyside Guidelines for health impact assessment. Liverpool: Merseyside Health Impact Assessment Steering Group. http://www.liv.ac.uk/~mhb) or variations of them, provide perhaps the most widely used model in this country and have proved to be practical and sufficiently flexible to be adapted to a range of circumstances.

Organisations/ departments were involved in the design/development of the tool:
Membership of the Merseyside Health Impact Assessment Steering Group consisted of Dr Kate Ardern (Consultant in Public Health, Liverpool Health Authority) Dr Janet Atherton (Director of Pubic Health, Wirral Health Authority), Dr Martin Birley (Manager, Health Impact Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), Mr Mike Eastwood (Research Fellow in Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University) Dr Diana Forrest (Director of Public Health, Liverpool Health Authority), Dr John Reid – Chair (Director of Public Health, Sefton Health Authority) Dr Alex Scott-Samuel (Liverpool Public Health Observatory).

Organisation/s funded development of the tool:
The Merseyside Health Impact Assessment Steering Group represents the four Merseyside health authorities (Liverpool, St Helens and Knowsley, Sefton and Wirral) and other agencies involved in the HIA programme commissioned by the health authorities from Liverpool Public Health Observatory in the period since April 1997. In commissioning the Merseyside HIA programme, the local Directors of Public Health were in part seeking support for their involvement in regeneration projects such as City Challenge, Single Regeneration Budget and European Union Objective One programmes.

Is the tool newly developed or based on an exisiting tool
Possibly EIA, as this developed as an impact assessment that should run concurrently with an EIA.

Cost of the full tool
Not specified