health impact assessment

Health Impact Assessment Training

By |2017-02-10T09:49:00-07:00February 18th, 2016|Prevention|

Our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity, in collaboration with the Arizona Alliance For Livable Communities, is sponsoring a new, two-day Health Impact Assessment (HIA) training course designed and presented by Habitat Health Impact Consulting. The purpose of the training is to build the skills of local health departments, non-governmental organizations and other agencies to [...]

Health in All Policies Guidance

By |2017-02-10T09:50:04-07:00October 16th, 2013|General, Prevention|

The California Department of Public Health, the California Endowment, and the Public Health Institute released a document called  "Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments" this week…  which provides best practices to improve the public's health and safety by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across all sectors and policy areas.  The [...]

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AZ’s Community Planning Matrix

By |2017-02-10T09:50:26-07:00May 14th, 2013|General|

Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about how a city’s General Plan is one tool for communities to define how they want their city or town to grow and improve population health and how city planning can have a real impact.  I wrote about how community residents can use a recently developed Toolkit put [...]

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AZ Healthy Community Design Tools

By |2017-02-10T09:50:33-07:00April 15th, 2013|Prevention|

Improving the health of Arizonans is critical to improving the quality of life as well as reducing health care costs. The most effective strategies are ones that incorporate the principles of population health… which includes health outcomes as well as the determinants that influence those outcomes including the public policy that influences the social and environmental [...]

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