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Health Impact Assessment Guidance
Health Impact Assessments (HIA) help ensure health and wellbeing are properly considered in planning by identifying ways to reduce harmful effects and increase beneficial effects, and should be done as early as possible in the development process.
A health impact assessment (HIA) helps to ensure that health and wellbeing are properly considered in planning policies and development proposals. In looking at how a proposal might affect people's health, an HIA can identify ways to amend the proposal to reduce possible harmful effects and increase possible beneficial effects. HIAs can be done at any stage in the development process but are best done at the earliest stage possible.
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