Christie, Nicola;
Ortegon Sanchez, Adriana;
Quin, Matthew;
Scammell, Katy;
Lui, Johnny;
Twite, Simon;
(2024)
Barriers and facilitators for implementing the Health Impact Assessment policy for Urban Planning Developments: A case study.
Cities and Health
10.1080/23748834.2024.2428012.
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Abstract
This paper discusses the implementation of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Policy and presents the results of a process evaluation aimed to assess its implementation and gain understanding on the benefits and challenges brought by the HIA Policy. Following a case study approach, a process evaluation was undertaken comprising in-depth interviews with Public Health and Development Management and focus groups with consultants, who conducted HIAs. Submitted HIAs (64) were reviewed and analytically assessed against key criteria. The HIA implementation was internally evaluated as part of a capacity building programme. The evaluation showed that whilst there was a consensus on the importance of embedding health considerations in developments and that a good partnership had been developed between health and planning teams, several barriers to effective implementation existed. These included: lack of capacity to carry out the HIA among planners, lack of national policy levers and other mechanisms to integrate HIA into planning, lack of community engagement by developers and problems carrying out monitoring and evaluation. The evaluation underscored the need to strengthen the partnership between Health and Planning while improving the HIA process and better integrating health in planning policies at local, regional, and national levels.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Barriers and facilitators for implementing the Health Impact Assessment policy for Urban Planning Developments: A case study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23748834.2024.2428012 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2428012 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Health impact assessment, planning policy, spatial planning and health, wider determinants of health, health inequalities, community engagement |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199746 |
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