Health impact assessment overview
By definition, “Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a means of assessing the health impacts of policies, plans and projects in diverse economic sectors using quantitative, qualitative and participatory techniques (WHO, 2017).” There are several economic sectors that impact the health of the community. Some of those involve transport, agriculture, and housing.Transport, for example, may impact the effects on the occurrences of traffic injuries and pollution (WHO, 2017). When implementing healthy policies, the risk rates can potentially be decreased. Promoting walking and cycling as well as others could be more beneficial to c