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Understanding Today’s Obesity and Chronic Illness Epidemic<br />

Advisory Services Panel - Healthy Communities<br />

<strong>Arvada</strong> , Colorado March 2013<br />

A Tool for Assessing Health Disparities<br />

Health Impact Assessment (HIA)<br />

• A combination of procedures, methods and tools<br />

that systematically judge <strong>the</strong> potential, and<br />

sometimes unintended effects a policy, plan,<br />

program, or project may have on <strong>the</strong> health of a<br />

population, and <strong>the</strong> distribution of those effects<br />

within a population<br />

• More information can be found here:<br />

http://www.sfphes.org/resources/hia-tools<br />

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