HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Birth Weight, Otitis Media, Urban Sprawl
17 Oct 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Health impact assessments (hias) help policy makers and community leaders to identify the health impacts of decisions about nonhealth issues, such as economic development, housing, and transportation plans. The hia is a structured process to gather, analyze, and present scientific data, health expertise, and public input to a public policy body so that policy choices can be made that will protect or promote health. For example, walkable communities can appeal to real estate developers, city planners, public health practitioners, and advocates all for somewhat different reasons. Across the nation, community coalitions are reframing suburban sprawl as something that discourages physical activity and therefore has consequences for people"s health. Given its importance, phab is developing standards for multisector collaboration. Tribal, state, and local public health departments have always connected to grassroots leadership and other public services in order to solve collective problems.
