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The Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Resource and Tool Compilation: A Comprehensive Toolkit for New and Experienced HIA Practitioners in the U.S.
Office of Research and Development
National Exposure Research Laboratory
EPA/600/R-15/330 September 2016 www.epa.gov/research
The Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Resource and Tool Compilation: A Comprehensive Toolkit for New and Experienced HIA Practitioners in the U.S.
Sally Pope1, Justicia Rhodus1,2, Florence Fulk3, Bruce Mintz4, Shannon O’Shea5
1 CSS-Dynamac c/o U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, OH 45268
2 CSS-Dynamac and Pegasus Technical Services, Inc. c/o U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, OH 45268
3 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory Cincinnati, OH 45268
4 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
5 Contractor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
National Exposure Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, OH 45268
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Notice
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development funded and managed the research described here under contract EP-D-11-073 to CSS-Dynamac. It has been subjected to the Agency’s external and administrative reviews and has been approved for publication as an EPA document.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Arthur Wendel (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Andrew Dannenberg (University of Washington, School of Public Health), Andrea Hamberg (Oregon Health Authority), and Joseph Schuchter (Santa Clara University) for providing critical review of this Compilation.
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Executive Summary
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a relatively new and rapidly emerging field in the U.S. An inventory of available HIA resources and tools was conducted, with a primary focus on resources developed in the U.S. The resources and tools available to HIA practitioners in the conduct of their work were identified through multiple methods and compiled into a comprehensive list. The compilation includes tools and resources related to the HIA process itself and those that can be used to collect and analyze data, establish a baseline profile, assess potential health impacts, and establish benchmarks and indicators for monitoring and evaluation. These resources include literature and evidence bases, data and statistics, guidelines, benchmarks, decision and economic analysis tools, scientific models, methods, frameworks, indices, mapping, and various data collection tools. Understanding the data, tools, models, methods, and other resources available to perform HIAs will help to advance the HIA community of practice in the U.S., improve the quality and rigor of assessments upon which stakeholder and policy decisions are based, and potentially improve the overall effectiveness of HIA to promote healthy and sustainable communities.
Disclaimer
The HIA Resource and Tool Compilation is not an endorsement of the resources and tools listed within. The Compilation contains hundreds of resources and tools developed by government agencies, nonprofits, and public and private organizations, addressing a wide variety of topics, and it was beyond the scope of this undertaking for EPA to review each resource and tool. Therefore, EPA cannot guarantee the validity of every resource and tool included in the Compilation; however, many of the resources and tools were included in the Compilation based on suggestions from HIA professionals or because they were used in completed HIAs. Users of the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation should keep in mind that some resources and tools were developed for specific locations and/or particular topics and may or may not be adaptable to other locales and/or similar topics.
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Foreword
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) conducts human and ecological exposure research that provides the tools necessary for EPA to carry out its mission. Critical to the success of the NERL research program is communication and utility of its research to influence and impact decisions aimed towards protecting human health and the environment.
Health impact assessments (HIAs) are becoming a more commonly used tool in the U.S. for incorporating health considerations into the decision-making process of plans, projects, programs, and policies. This inventory was conducted to identify the types of data, tools, models, and methods currently used in HIAs and promote existing EPA tools, methods, and models that can be used in HIA.
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Table of Contents
Notice ...... ii Acknowledgements ...... ii Executive Summary ...... iii Disclaimer ...... iii Foreword ...... iv Introduction ...... 1 HIA Resource and Tool Compilation Development ...... 1 HIA Resource and Tool Compilation Methodology ...... 1 Categorization ...... 1 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria ...... 3 Resource and Tool Spotlight ...... 3 Using the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation ...... 4 Intended Audience ...... 4 Practical Application ...... 4 Searching in the Compilation ...... 9 HIA Resource and Tool Compilation ...... 10 Appendix A. Health Impact Assessment Frequently Asked Questions ...... A-1
Tables
Table 1. HIA Resource and Tool Compilation Organization ...... 2
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Figure 1. Examples of available ‘HIA Process Resources’...... 6 Figure 2. Examples of resources and tools available for conducting HIA...... 8
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Introduction
The Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Resource and Tool Compilation is a comprehensive list of resources and tools that can be utilized by HIA practitioners with all levels of HIA experience to guide them throughout the HIA process. The HIA Resource and Tool Compilation is a preliminary effort that will eventually be integrated into an HIA Roadmap in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST). C-FERST is an online community mapping, information access, and assessment tool designed to help assess risk and assist in decision making within communities. More information on C-FERST can be found online at the EPA C-FERST website.
HIA Resource and Tool Compilation Development
The HIA resources and tools contained in this Compilation were identified through: o the “HIA Information Toolkit: Data, Methods, and Models from the HIA Community of Practice” Working Group at the Inaugural National Health Impact Assessment Meeting in Washington D.C. in 2012; o an inventory of EPA tools, databases, and other resources relevant to HIA; o data sources, tools, and methods identified in the EPA report, A Review of Health Impact Assessments in the U.S.: Current State-of-Science, Best Practices, and Areas for Improvement; o a general online search; and o an extensive, although not comprehensive, inventory of tools used in completed HIAs. HIA Resource and Tool Compilation Methodology
Categorization
The resources and tools in the Compilation are organized into the primary categories and subcategories listed in Table 1. The Primary Category is the general classification of the tool or resource, while the Subcategory provides more detailed information on the format of the tool or resource (e.g., guidelines, scientific models, GIS-based mapping, etc.) or the sector to which the relevant data in the tool or resource pertains (e.g., built environment, health and healthcare, transportation, population statistics, etc.). The resources and tools fall into two groupings: those relating to the HIA process itself (i.e., the ‘HIA Process Resources’ primary category) and those that can be used in certain HIA steps to collect and analyze data, establish a baseline profile, assess potential health impacts, and establish benchmarks and indicators for recommendations and monitoring (i.e., all other primary categories). The resources and tools in these other primary categories include literature and evidence bases, data and statistics, guidelines, benchmarks, decision and economic analysis tools, scientific models, methods, frameworks, indices, mapping, and various qualitative and quantitative data collection tools, such as surveys. Page 1
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Certain resources and tools, like those TableTable 1. 1.HIA HIA Resource Resource andand Tool Tool Compilation Compilation Organization Organization in the ‘Databases,’ ‘Guidance Documents,’ Primary Subcategory and ‘Mapping Tools’ categories can be used Category to build baseline profiles of existing – General HIA Information conditions. Others, such as those listed in – HIA Trainings and Webinars ‘Data Collection Tools,’ can be used to – Screening Step collect new quantitative and qualitative – Scoping Step – Assessment Step data. Resources and tools from the HIA Process – Recommendations ‘Guidance Documents,’ ‘Analysis Tools,’ Resources – Reporting Step ‘Models,’ and ‘Mapping Tools’ categories – Monitoring & Evaluation Step can guide HIA practitioners in impact – HIA Communication characterization. – Community Participation, Partnerships, and Equity For those resources and tools for which it is – Literature/Evidence Bases relevant, Topic(s) are provided detailing the – General Data Warehouses sectors or topic areas to which that – Multi-Topic Databases particular resource or tool pertains. These – Agriculture topics correspond to the subcategories – Built Environment used for ‘Databases’ and are intended to – Business and Industry provide further descriptive information on – Crime the resource or tool and to assist HIA Databases – Economics practitioners in searching through the – Education – Environment hundreds of resources and tools listed in – Health and Healthcare the Compilation. – Housing – Labor and Workplace Topics include: – Population o Agriculture – Transportation o Built Environment Guidance – Guidelines o Business and Industry Documents – Benchmarks o Crime – Decision Analysis Analysis Tools o Economics – Economic Analysis o Education – Scientific Models Environment – Methods o Models o Health and Healthcare – Frameworks – Indices o Housing – GIS-Based Mapping o Labor and Workplace Mapping Tools – Map Data Viewers o Population – Qualitative Transportation Data Collection o – Quantitative Tools – Mixed Methods
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Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
Resources and tools developed in the U.S. were the primary focus of this Compilation. A comprehensive inventory of international HIA tools and resources was beyond the scope of this project due to resource limitations. Any domestic or international HIA resources and tools that are not found in the Compilation were not excluded as a result of the resources and tools being poorly designed or of little value to HIA practitioners.
There are many useful resources and tools available at the local, county, and state levels for HIA practitioners. A comprehensive list of these resources and tools is beyond the scope of this Compilation, as there are thousands of these types of products available throughout the U.S. However, it is important that HIA practitioners are aware that these resources and tools exist; that similar ones may be available for their study area; and that in some cases, although developed for a particular area, these resource and tools may be adapted to fit the needs of other locales. For these reasons, generic “State, County, and Local” dataset and tool entries have been provided in the Compilation and include a general description of the type of data and/or tools that may be available, some specific example(s) of these types of data or tools, keywords, and the names of departments, agencies, or organizations from which these resources and tools could potentially be obtained. These tools may be very useful for HIAs with smaller geographic scopes.
Resource and Tool Spotlight
A number of resources and tools from the Compilation that are commonly used in HIA and/or provide HIA best practices are spotlighted below:
o Health Impact Project o Human Impact Partners’ Tools & Resources o UCLA HIA Clearinghouse Learning & Information Center (UCLA HIA-CLIC) o Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment, Version 3 o Equity Metrics for Health Impact Assessment Practice o Census Bureau o Data.gov o Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) o National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network o County Health Rankings & Roadmaps o The San Francisco Indicator Project [formerly the Sustainable Communities Index (SCI)] o Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) o Eco-Health Relationship Browser o EnviroAtlas o The National Map o EJSCREEN Page 3 The Health Impact Assessment Resource and Tool Compilation U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development
Using the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation
Intended Audience
The Compilation was developed for use by anyone interested in conducting HIAs, including experienced HIA practitioners; local, state, regional, or federal agencies working in public health, transportation, planning, or any other sector interested in the health consequences of a proposed action; and local community-based organizations concerned with the potential health effects of local decisions. The Compilation provides resources and tools that can be used by individuals with all levels of HIA experience, from those who are interested in conducting their first HIA and need information on what an HIA is and how to conduct one, to those who have conducted many HIAs and are looking for new assessment tools.
Practical Application
The Compilation may look overwhelming, especially to someone new to the field of HIA, with its hundreds of resources and tools; however, not all of these resources and tools will be applicable to each HIA. The Primary Category, Subcategory, and Topic(s) columns help to guide the HIA practitioner to the resources and tools that may be relevant in their HIA.
A good place to start is to first review the primary categories of the Compilation. If someone is new to HIA, then they may want to start with the ‘General HIA Information’ and ‘HIA Trainings and Webinar’ resources listed in the ‘HIA Process Resources’ category to familiarize themselves with the HIA process. Those new to the practice may need to spend some time going through the different categories of resources and tools to see which may be most applicable to their HIA. The experienced HIA practitioner, who is familiar with the tasks and documentation tools available at each step, may want to skip the ‘HIA Process Resources’ and begin examining the remaining categories in the Compilation. The Subcategory and Topic(s) columns will help users narrow down the search for resources and tools to those relevant to the HIA being performed. Searching for keywords throughout the Compilation is also a quick and easy way to locate resources and tools related to a topic of interest.
The two-part example that follows offers practical guidance on how to use the Compilation and demonstrates: A. How someone new to the practice of HIA could locate resources on the HIA process; and B. How someone could locate data sources and tools to conduct an HIA.
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Example
A local community organization wants to assess how the construction of a transitway through a low-income neighborhood will impact their community. They’re interested in using HIA as a tool to assess these impacts and present to City Council, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and other stakeholders who will be voting on the project.
Part A
The local community organization wants to learn more about what an HIA is, what the process entails, and how they can use it to meet their communities’ needs.
For those new to the HIA process, like the organization in this scenario, the ‘HIA Process Resources’ is a good starting point for learning about the HIA process and the principles that guide it.
To learn more about the HIA process, how to conduct an HIA, and how to decide whether HIA is the right approach for this effort (i.e., perform the screening step), individuals can search the ‘HIA Process Resources’ category of the Compilation and find resources and tools, such as those shown in Figure 1. Individuals may also want to review Appendix A, which provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about HIA and directs readers to relevant resources and tools in the Compilation, as needed.
In addition, a useful activity for any group undertaking an HIA is to identify and review, early in the HIA process, HIAs that have been conducted on similar decisions. This can help the HIA team to identify relevant health determinants, health outcomes, and assessment methods. The HIA team may do a preliminary review of the literature included in these HIAs before conducting their own literature review so as to familiarize themselves with the relevant literature on the topic and inform the scoping process. In progress and completed HIAs are indexed in the Health Impact Project’s ‘HIA in the United States’ web tool and on the University of California Los Angeles HIA Clearinghouse Learning and Information Center (UCLA HIA-CLIC) website. Both of these resources are listed under the ‘General HIA Information’ subcategory of the ‘HIA Process Resources’.
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Primary Category Subcategory Resources and Tools
A HIA Toolkit: A Handbook to Conducting HIA, 3rd Edition
Guide providing general information on the General HIA HIA process and tools for conducting HIA Information UCLA HIA-CLIC: Completed HIAs
Health Impact Project: HIA in the United States
HIA Process Searchable sites that allows users to search Resources for HIAs similar to the topic of their HIA
HIA Trainings and Planning for Healthy Places with Health Webinars Impact Assessments
Free, online course the HIA team can use to train on HIA
Screening Step Screening Worksheet
Worksheet with questions to determine whether an HIA is feasible, timely, and of added value
Figure 1. Examples of available ‘HIA Process Resources’.
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Part B
The local community organization decides to conduct an HIA. The organization forms an HIA Team responsible for conducting the HIA. The team is looking for: o possible health determinants and outcomes to examine; o literature on low-income housing and residents and the effects of transitway co- location; o local community data on demographics, housing, employment/unemployment, transportation options, environmental health data, health conditions, and healthcare services; and o methods of data collection, possibly to survey residents living in the apartment complex near the path of the transitway and/or interview relevant stakeholders.
Now that the HIA Team is familiar with the HIA process and has completed the screening step of the HIA process (i.e., decided that an HIA would be feasible, timely, and of added value), the team will move on to the second step of the process – scoping – and begin to plan the assessment step of the HIA. The HIA Team may look to the rest of the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation for resources and tools to use at this point.
To learn more about the data, tools, and methods that could be used in conducting the HIA, individuals can search the Primary Categories of the Compilation and find resources and tools applicable to their HIA, such as those shown in Figure 2.
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Primary Category Subcategory Topic(s) Resources and Tools
HIA Process HIA Screening/ Scoping Step Google Scholar Resources Scoping Checklist of Health Determinants Built Environment PubMed Checklist to help guide Demographics which health Literature/ Provides access to Environment determinants to include Evidence Bases literature and Health and Healthcare in the HIA (outdoor air research on a wide quality, noise, etc.) Housing range of topics Databases Labor and Workforce General Data Transportation Data.gov Warehouses BenMap- Community Edition Comparable data at the Economics Estimates the health city, county, and state Environment levels; possible Health & Healthcare impacts and economic benefits with changes neighborhood-level Transportation data Economic in air quality Analysis Tools Analysis
Health Economic Criteria Air
Assessment Tool Pollutants/National
Environment Economic benefits of Ambient Air Quality Guidance Guidelines Health and Healthcare walking/cycling Standards Documents Benchmarks Transportation Transportation and SurveyMonkey Air Quality/ Emission Standards Data Collection Free, online survey Quantitative Tools that can be used to EPA air quality and survey the community emission standards Figure 2. Examples of resources and tools available for conducting HIA.
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Searching in the Compilation
On the following pages, you will find the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation. The Compilation follows the layout of the primary categories and subcategories listed in Table 1. Remember that the primary category is the general classification of the tool or resource, while the subcategory provides more detailed information on the format of the tool or resource or the sector to which the relevant data in the tool or resource pertains. For those resources and tools for which it is relevant, the Topic(s) column details the sector or topic area to which that particular resource or tool pertains. The Subcategory and Topic(s) columns will help users narrow down the search for resources and tools to those relevant to the HIA being performed. Most of the resources and tools in the Compilation are free, but when there is an associated cost, it is noted in the Description column with the symbol $.
The Compilation is a lengthy list of hundreds of resources and tools, but keyword searches are a quick and easy way to locate resources and tools related to a topic of interest. The Compilation can be easily searched using keywords through two methods. Holding down the Control button while pressing the F key will bring up the Find search box, where the user can search by keywords or phrases. The Find function can also be found in the PDF menu bar, under the Edit tab.
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Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category
A national initiative designed to promote the use of HIA Robert Wood http://www.pewtrusts.o HIA Process General HIA as a decision-making tool for policymakers. Provides Johnson N/A Health Impact Project N/A rg/en/projects/health- Resources Information summaries and links to a wide variety of HIA research, Foundation, Pew impact-project toolkits, resources, case studies, and news. Charitable Trust
A web tool that provides a map view and list of in- Health Impact progress and completed HIAs in the U.S. Users can Project; Centers http://www.pewtrusts.o HIA Process General HIA HIA in the United search by organization type, decision-making level, for Disease rg/en/multimedia/data- N/A N/A Resources Information States sector, grant type, and state. Provides a general summary Control Healthy visualizations/2015/hia- of each HIA and a link to any related information (e.g. Community map HIA report, website, etc.). Design Initiative
University of California Los UCLA HIA Website that includes a comprehensive list of in- Angeles HIA Clearinghouse HIA Process General HIA progress and completed HIAs in the U.S., with options Clearinghouse http://www.hiaguide.or N/A Learning and N/A Resources Information to help narrow down the search, and important Learning & g/ Information Center information on HIA methodology and resources. Information Center (UCLA HIA-CLIC) (UCLA HIA- CLIC)
Society of https://sophia.wildapric Minimum Elements Updated HIA minimum elements and practice standards Practitioners of ot.org/resources/Docu HIA Process General HIA and Practice Standards N/A developed by a working group of experienced HIA N/A Health Impact ments/HIA-Practice- Resources Information for Health Impact practitioners released in 2014. Assessment Standards-September- Assessment, Version 3 (SOPHIA) 2014.pdf
Society of Society of Practitioners of HIA Process General HIA Practitioners of Health An organization for HIA practitioners in North America https://sophia.wildapric N/A N/A Health Impact Resources Information Impact Assessment and worldwide. ot.org/ Assessment (SOPHIA) (SOPHIA)
World Health Website of information on HIA methodology, evidence, World Health HIA Process General HIA Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int/hia N/A tools, policies, news, and events. Offers information and N/A Organization Resources Information Health Impact /en/ examples of HIAs conducted internationally. (WHO) Assessment
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Offers a basis for why we need health informed policies Improving Health in and decision-making; outlines the elements of an HIA, Committee on http://www.nap.edu/cat HIA Process General HIA the United States: The including criteria that define an HIA and conclusions N/A N/A HIA; National alog.php?record_id=13 Resources Information Role of Health Impact regarding the practice; identifies current issues and Research Council 229 Assessment challenges in HIA; and highlights structures and policies for promoting HIA.
Human Impact Partners is one of the few organizations in the U.S. conducting health-based analyses with an HIA Process General HIA Human Impact explicit focus on uncovering and then addressing the Human Impact http://www.humanimp N/A N/A Resources Information Partners policies and practices that make communities less Partners act.org/ healthy and create health inequities. HIA is one of their main tools for conducting this work.
Webpage with information on the role HIA plays in the Centers for HIA Process General HIA Healthy Places: Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/he N/A N/A Resources Information Impact Assessment Healthy Community Design Initiative and HIA and Prevention althyplaces/hia.htm information and resource links. (CDC)
Provides good practice guidance for conducting an HIA to determine potential impacts on community health as a result of project development. This guidance supports International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability. International http://www.ifc.org/wps This document has three objectives: (1) To present Finance /wcm/connect/a0f1120 HIA Process General HIA Introduction to Health methodological approaches to assess and address N/A N/A Corporation (IFC) 048855a5a85dcd76a65 Resources Information Impact Assessment potential community health impacts that might typically World Bank Group 15bb18/healthimpact.p be encountered in the development or review of existing (WBG) df?mod=ajperes or future industrial projects; (2) To assist in the development of the terms of reference (TOR) that may be needed to conduct the HIA; and (3) To help ensure inclusion of health impact aspects in the social and environmental impact assessment process.
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Provides a brief background on HIA, an outline of essential and common tasks in the HIA process, discussion of common issues and challenges http://www.cdph.ca.go encountered in HIA, and examples of and links to California v/pubsforms/Guideline HIA Process General HIA A Guide for Health N/A resources for practice. It also provides suggestions for N/A Department of s/Documents/HIA%20 Resources Information Impact Assessment integrating health analysis within the regulatory Public Health Guide%20FINAL%20 environmental impact assessment process, obtaining 10-19-10.pdf inclusion from diverse stakeholders, and evaluating the HIA process.
A hands-on teaching guide for how to conduct health A Health Impact impact assessment. The Toolkit provides an introduction Assessment Toolkit: http://www.humanimp HIA Process General HIA to HIA, walks the reader through the step-by-step Human Impact N/A A Handbook to N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Information process of conducting HIA, provides helpful tools for Partners Conducting HIA, 3rd toolkit-2011/ conducting HIA, and contains information on common Edition community health indicator.
Provides brief, two-page guides on each step of the HIA http://www.humanimp HIA Process General HIA Human Impact N/A HIA Summary Guides process outlining the step's objective, essential tasks, N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Information Partners key points, tools, and resources. steps/
Some of the first guidelines that provided the foundation International The Merseyside http://www.apho.org.u HIA Process General HIA for HIA internationally. Covers HIA procedures, Health IMPACT N/A Guidelines for Health N/A k/resource/item.aspx?R Resources Information methodology, core values, conceptual and Assessment Impact Assessment ID=44256 methodological issues, and tools. Consortium
Centre for Health Equity Training, Provides a practical approach to undertaking HIA. Research and http://hiaconnect.edu.a Based on the findings of an HIA project in the United Evaluation part of u/wp- Health Impact HIA Process General HIA Kingdom, the aim is to encourage greater consideration the University of content/uploads/2012/0 N/A Assessment: A N/A Resources Information of health and well-being through the use of HIA within New South Wales 5/Health_Impact_Asse Practical Guide project, program, and policy development in HIA (UNSW)Research ssment_A_Practical_G anywhere. Centre for Primary uide.pdf Health Care and Equity
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Provides information on the development of impact http://www.paho.org/h Health Impact Pan American assessments in general and HIA in particular, in the U.S. q/index.php?option=co HIA Process General HIA Assessment: Concepts Health N/A and abroad. The guide also covers the methodology of N/A m_docman&task=doc_ Resources Information and Guidelines for the Organization HIA and examples from HIAs conducted in the U.S. and download&gid=23890 Americas (PAHO) internationally. &Itemid=270&lang=en
National http://activelivingresea Health Impact Covers what an HIA is, how it can be used, the value of Association of HIA Process General HIA rch.org/files/NACCHO N/A Assessment: Quick HIA and its challenges, the different steps of HIA, and N/A County and City Resources Information _HIAQuickGuide_0.pd Guide the different types of HIA. Health Officials f (NACCHO)
A complementary guide to other HIA resources that is designed to provide a history of HIA in the U.S., San Francisco Health Impact information on each step of the HIA process, illustrative Department of http://www.humanimp HIA Process General HIA N/A Assessment: A Guide examples from practice, as well as suggestions for N/A Public Health; act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Information for Practice stakeholder participation and the integration of health Human Impact guide-for-practice/ analysis in the environmental impact assessment Partners process.
HIA Process General HIA Webpage of general information on HIA, including a http://hiaconnect.edu.a N/A About HIA N/A HIA Connect Resources Information glossary of related terms. u/resources/about-hia/
Webpage providing links to HIAs of varying levels of World Health HIA Process General HIA assessment conducted worldwide for a wide variety of http://www.who.int/hia N/A Examples of HIA N/A Organization Resources Information sectors including housing, mining, gender, waste, water, /examples/en/ (WHO) culture, and tourism, to name a few.
Answers frequently asked questions raised when FAQs about http://www.humanimp considering integrating HIA into EIA. FAQs cover Integrating HIA act.org/downloads/faqs- HIA Process General HIA topics like the benefits of conducting HIA, a Human Impact N/A into EIA N/A about-integrating-hia- Resources Information comprehensive health impacts analysis under the Partners (Environmental into-environmental- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and how Impact Assessment) impact-assessment-2/ HIA can fit into the EIA process.
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International Petroleum Industry Environmental https://www.internatio A Guide to Health Conservation nalsos.com/foundation/ HIA Process General HIA Impact Assessments in Defines and outlines the purpose and value of HIAs Association N/A N/A ~/media/1a1ecdfa8c95 Resources Information the Oil and Gas within the oil and gas industry. (IPIECA); 405e8a619d782fe4594 Industry International 0.ashx Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP)
Health Impact Introduces the concept of HIA and how mining International Assessment: Summary HIA Process General HIA companies can evaluate the health and well-being effects Council on Mining http://www.icmm.com/ N/A of the Good Practice N/A Resources Information that mining operations have on the local communities in and Metals document/977 Guidance (Mining and which they operate. (ICMM) Metal Operations)
Sets out an overview of how mining and metals operations can affect the health and well-being of local communities, describes typical HIA processes, and Good Practice outlines a methodology for undertaking a rapid Guidance on assessment so that in-house practitioners are involved International HIA Process General HIA Health Impact from the start. Provides an overview of how mining and Council for http://www.icmm.com/ N/A N/A Resources Information Assessment (Mining metal operations affect community health and describes Mining and Metals document/792 and Metals how the HIA methodology can be used for a rapid (ICMM) Operations) assessment. Recognizes that it is imperative to integrate health impact assessment with environmental and social impact assessments and provides the reader with management tools to achieve this.
Health Impact List of international HIA best practice principles International HIA Process General HIA Assessment: intended to promote HIA, lead to better consideration of Association for http://www.iaia.org/upl N/A N/A Resources Information International Best the health implications of decisions, and render Impact Assessment oads/pdf/SP5_3.pdf Practices Principles decisions more sustainable. (IAIA)
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http://www.pewtrusts.o rg/en/projects/health- HIA Process General HIA Webpage that provides synopses and links to HIA case Health Impact impact-project/health- N/A HIA Case Studies N/A Resources Information studies completed around the nation. Project impact- assessment/case- studies
Webpage that provides synopses and links to HIA case http://www.humanimp HIA Process General HIA Human Impact N/A HIA Case Stories stories, Health in All Policies projects, and other health N/A act.org/projects/hia- Resources Information Partners projects completed by Human Impact Partners. case-stories/
http://www.humanimp Webpage that provides links to state and federal policies act.org/capacity- HIA Process General HIA Human Impact N/A Sample HIA Policies requiring or recommending the use of HIA in regulatory N/A building/hia-tools-and- Resources Information Partners processes at the state and federal levels. resources/#samplepolic ies
This toolkit can help planners, public health professionals, and the general public include health in the community planning process. The toolkit is Centers for Healthy Community HIA Process General HIA comprised of four components: 1) Healthy Community Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/he N/A Design Checklist N/A Resources Information Design Checklist; 2) Healthy Community Design and Prevention althyplaces/toolkit/ Toolkit PowerPoint Presentation; 3) Creating a Health Profile of (CDC) Your Neighborhood; and 4) Planning for Health Resources Guide.
http://healthimpactasse ssment.pbworks.com/f/ More Than a Critical+guide+to+HIA Statement of the Focuses on the aims of HIA rather than the process, West Midlands HIA Process General HIA +more+than+a+statem N/A Crushingly Obvious: while serving as a practical guide that can steer people N/A Public Health Resources Information ent+of+the+crushingly A Critical Guide to through doing an HIA. Observatory +obvious- HIA +WMPHO+England+- +2008.pdf
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University of New South Wales HIA Process General HIA Australian website providing HIA resources, (UNSW) Research http://hiaconnect.edu.a N/A HIA Connect N/A Resources Information publications, guides, news, and events. Centre for Primary u/ Health Care and Equity
Website that provides access to resources and information on HIA for those new to HIA, practitioners http://www.apho.org.u HIA Process General HIA of HIA, and those wishing to commission HIAs or some Public Health N/A HIA Gateway N/A k/default.aspx?QN=P_ Resources Information other impact assessment process (e.g., Integrated Impact England HIA Assessment, Mental Well-being Impact Assessment and health-related Strategic Environmental Assessment).
http://www.humanimp Human Impact HIA Process General HIA Inventory of HIA tools and resources compiled by Human Impact act.org/capacity- N/A Partners' Tools and N/A Resources Information Human Impact Partners. Partners building/hia-tools-and- Resources resources/ UCLA HIA- Information on different methodologies that can be used Clearinghouse http://www.hiaguide.or HIA Process General HIA Methods (Used in N/A in health impact assessment. Links to other websites N/A Learning & g/methods- Resources Information HIA) with more in-depth information also provided. Information Center resources/methods (CLIC)
http://www.naccho.org National Association National Website with HIA resources, including webinars, HIA /programs/community- of County and City Association of HIA Process General HIA examples, publications, and a map of local health health/healthy- N/A Health Officials N/A County and City Resources Information departments that have conducted or are currently community- (NACCHO): Health Health Officials conducting HIA (with links to those departments). design/health-impact- Impact Assessment (NACCHO) assessment
http://www.naccho.org National /topics/environmental/ NACCHO HIA Provides a basic primer on HIA and a number of Association of health-impact- HIA Process General HIA N/A Mentorship Project resources on the topic; it is not meant to be N/A County and City assessment/upload/NA Resources Information 2013-2014 Toolkit comprehensive. Health Officials CCHO-HIA- (NACCHO) Mentorship-Project- Toolkit_FINAL.pdf
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A model (for conducting an HIA in a short time frame http://www.humanimp with limited financial resources and an overview look at act.org/capacity- HIA Process General HIA New Rapid HIA Human Impact N/A health impacts, while maintaining a high level of N/A building/hia-tools-and- Resources Information Model Partners stakeholder engagement in the process; based on an HIA resources/#newrapidhi case study. a
Centers for Parks and Trails Provides information on the relationship between health http://www.cdc.gov/he HIA Process General HIA Environment Disease Control Health Impact and parks and trails, and tools for the development of N/A althyplaces/parks_trails Resources Information Health and Healthcare and Prevention Assessment Toolkit HIAs with park and trail components. /default.htm (CDC)
http://designforhealth.n Provides information and tools for conducting a et/wp- HIA Process General HIA Rapid Health Impact N/A participatory workshop rapid HIA, including the HIA N/A Design for Health content/uploads/2012/1 Resources Information Assessment Toolkit Rapid Assessment Workshop Checklist. 2/BCBS_Rapidassess ment_011608.pdf
Provides the results of a systematic review of health impact assessments (HIAs) from the U.S. that aimed to identify the state of the HIA practice in the U.S., best practices in HIAs, and A Review of Health potential areas for improving the HIA community of Impact Assessments in U.S. practice. The review was focused on HIAs from the four https://www.epa.gov/h HIA Process General HIA the U.S.: Current State- Environmental N/A sectors that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s N/A ealthresearch/hia- Resources Information of-Science, Best Protection Agency (EPA’s) Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research review-synthesis-report Practices, and Areas (EPA) Program has identified as target areas for empowering for Improvement communities to move toward more sustainable states. These four sectors are Transportation, Housing/Buildings/Infrastructure, Land Use, and Waste Management/Site Revitalization.
Provides a framework for public health departments, Centers for Transportation Health http://www.cdc.gov/he HIA Process General HIA Health and Healthcare city planners, project managers, and other stakeholders Disease Control Impact Assessment N/A althyplaces/transportati Resources Information Transportation to conduct HIAs on proposed transportation projects, and Prevention Toolkit on/hia_toolkit.htm plans, and policies. (CDC)
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Extensive training slides introducing the user to HIA, http://www.humanimp going into detail for each step of the HIA process, and HIA Process HIA Trainings and Human Impact act.org/downloads/hia- N/A HIA Training Slides providing background information on the relationship N/A Resources Webinars Partners training-slides-aug- between land use, public policy, and health/health 2013/ determinants.
National Online course sponsored by the Centers for Disease Association of Planning for Healthy Control and Prevention (CDC) that explains the value of County and City http://advance.captus.c HIA Process HIA Trainings and N/A Places with Health conducting an HIA and the steps involved. Throughout N/A Health Officials om/Planning/hia2/hom Resources Webinars Impact Assessments the course, examples of HIAs are highlighted and (NACCHO); e.aspx discussed. American Planning Association
http://www.hiaguide.or Seven module HIA training program that offers an University of HIA Process HIA Trainings and UCLA HIA Training g/training/training- N/A introduction to HIA, the steps in the HIA process, case N/A California Los Resources Webinars Manual guides/ucla-hia- studies, and a review of barriers to the practice. Angeles (UCLA) training-manual University of California Los Angeles HIA HIA Process HIA Trainings and Webpage providing links to HIA training guides and http://www.hiaguide.or N/A HIA Training N/A Clearinghouse & Resources Webinars opportunities from a variety of organizations. g/training Information Center (UCLA HIA- CLIC)
Health Impact Provides summaries and links to a six module training http://activelivingresea HIA Process HIA Trainings and Assessment Active Living N/A course on HIA, complete with a case study as well as N/A rch.org/health-impact- Resources Webinars Resources: A Six-Part Research introductory materials and resources. assessment-resources Training Course
Implementing Equity Webinar focused specifically on why equity is critical to PolicyLink; in Health in All Health in All Policies (HiAP) and HIAs, and specific National https://cc.readytalk.co HIA Process HIA Trainings and Policies and Health strategies to implement and ensure equity. Speakers Association of N/A N/A m/cc/playback/Playbac Resources Webinars Impact Assessments: discuss principles and frameworks for the inclusion of County and City k.do?id=4wr7jg From Concept to equity, as well as present examples of the principles in Health Officials Action practice. (NACCHO)
Page 18 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Association of State and Territorial Health Tracking Webinar The second in a three-part series of Environmental Officials Series - Part II: Public Health Tracking Program webinars. Speakers (ASTHO); http://wpc.0948.edgeca Incorporating HIA Process HIA Trainings and discussed opportunities for intersection between HIA American Public stcdn.net/000948/webi N/A Environmental Public N/A Resources Webinars and tracking data and also provided participants with a Health Association nar/PH_Tracking/2/lib/ Health Tracking into national perspective on the use of HIAs and the (APHA); National playback.html Health Impact Tracking Network. Association of Assessments County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) World Health HIA Process The HIA Procedure: Webpage describing the Screening step of the HIA http://www.who.int/hia Screening Step N/A N/A Organization Resources Screening process, with an international HIA example. /tools/process/en/ (WHO)
Presents questions to consider with prospective HIA http://www.humanimp HIA Process HIA Readiness Human Impact Screening Step N/A partners to determine their preparedness for launching N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Questions Partners an HIA. readiness-questions/
http://designforhealth.n A simple two-page form that enables planners to assess et/wp- Health Impact HIA Process whether a project is significant enough in size and scope content/uploads/2012/0 Screening Step N/A Assessment Level 1: N/A Design For Health Resources and has enough potential health effects to warrant an 2/BCBS_HIAPrelimina Preliminary Checklist HIA. ryChecklis2.1_061107. pdf http://www.impactsant Deciding if a Health Information based on the real-world, practical Health e.ch/pdf/NHS_HDA_D HIA Process Impact Assessment is experience of HIA practitioners, leading academics, Screening Step N/A N/A Development eciding%20if%20HIA Resources Required (Screening policy makers and commissioners involved in a variety Agency %20is%20required_% for HIA) of HIAs across the United Kingdom. 202003
Screening White Paper: Considerations for the Selection of http://www.humanimp HIA Process Appropriate Policies, Provides criteria to assist people with selecting a policy, Human Impact Screening Step N/A N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Plans, or program, plan, or project on which to conduct HIA. Partners screening-whitepaper/ Projects for Analysis using Health Impact Assessment
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http://www.humanimp HIA Process Human Impact Screening Step N/A Screening Worksheet Sample worksheet to guide HIA screening. N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Partners screening-worksheet/
Health Impact Minnesota http://www.apho.org.u HIA Process Generic tool to be used during the Screening step in an Screening Step N/A Assessment Generic N/A Department of k/resource/view.aspx? Resources HIA. Screening Tool Health RID=44898
Leadership Team, http://www.humanimp Steering Committee, act.org/downloads/lead Technical and HIA Process Summarizes the purpose, roles, and functions of the Human Impact ership-team-steering- Screening Step N/A Community Advisory N/A Resources various types of committees involved in HIAs. Partners committee-technical- Committees - and-community- Definition, Purpose advisory-committees/ and Internal Process
B.L. Cole, et al. 2005. Methodologies for Provides a visual aid in the form of a decision algorithm Realizing the Screening Algorithm that helps guide analysts’ discussions about whether to http://www.healthedpar Potential of Health to Guide Decisions on proceed with an HIA. It may not be possible to come up tners.org/ceu/hia/hia02 HIA Process Impact Screening Step N/A Whether to Conduct a with definitive answers for the different decision points N/A /02_01_methodologies Resources Assessment. Health Impact in the algorithm; nonetheless, the algorithm can help _realizing_potential_hi American Journal Assessment structure, standardize, and document the decision a_2005.pdf of Preventitive process. Medicine 28(4):382-389. (Figure 1)
http://www.humanimp Guides the user through determining health HIA Process Human Impact act.org/downloads/hia- Scoping Step N/A Scoping Exercise determinants, potential pathways, geographic area, N/A Resources Partners training-scoping- impact research questions, data sources, and methods. exercise/ World Health http://www.who.int/hia HIA Process The HIA Procedure: Webpage describing the Scoping step of the HIA Scoping Step N/A N/A Organization /tools/process/en/index Resources Scoping process. (WHO) 1.html
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Draft scope for an HIA conducted in 2008 that http://www.humanimp demonstrates the elements of a comprehensive HIA act.org/downloads/draf HIA Process Example of an HIA Human Impact Scoping Step N/A scope. Covers health determinants, key health issues, N/A t-scope-of-the-concord- Resources Scope Partners project/plan objectives, HIA framing questions, HIA naval-weapons-station- research methods and tasks, and data sources. hia/
Introduces an innovative process for high-value HIA implementation that helps anticipate the types of health http://static1.squarespa Health Effects effects commonly associated with resource development Habitat Health ce.com/static/562c532f Assessment Tool projects. For each component of a research and Impact Consulting; e4b079eaf38b7ed0/t/5 HIA Process (HEAT): An development project, this tool presents links to Environmental 6327fbbe4b0ee8fa833 Scoping Step N/A N/A Resources Innovative Guide for commonly associated health determinants and health Resources 5103/1446150075297/ HIA in Resource outcomes, as well as important contextual and project- Management HealthEffectsofResour Development Projects specific factors that need to be taken into account. (ERM) ceDevelopmentProjects Practical guidance and recommendations are also oilgas.pdf provided.
Report on Mental Provides basic information for practitioners who are Health in Health https://sophia.wildapric considering including mental health in their HIA. HIA Process Impact Assessment: A Habitat Health ot.org/resources/Docu Scoping Step N/A Systematically reviews and maps the inclusion of mental N/A Resources Resource for Health Impact Consulting ments/MHinHIA_Lucy health in completed health Impact Assessment k.pdf impact assessment reports. Practitioners
Centers for Social Determinants of Webpage on social determinants of health (SDOH), with HIA Process Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/so Scoping Step N/A Health: Know What links on SDOH data, tools for action, programs, policy N/A Resources and Prevention cialdeterminants/ Affects Health options, frequently asked questions, and other resources. (CDC)
Webpage on information, news, documents and World Health HIA Process Social Determinants of http://www.who.int/soc Scoping Step N/A publications, methodologies, tools, and other resources N/A Organization Resources Health ial_determinants/en/ on the social determinants of health. (WHO) World Health Organization's (WHO) webpage on the World Health HIA Process The Determinants of http://www.who.int/hia Scoping Step N/A determinants of health and the evidence base for seven N/A Organization Resources Health /evidence/doh/en/ of those determinants. (WHO)
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U.S. Department Webpage presents Healthy People 2020 information on of Health and http://www.healthypeo HIA Process Determinants of the range of personal, social, economic, and Scoping Step N/A N/A Human Services ple.gov/2020/about/D Resources Health environmental factors that influence health status, (DHHS) Healthy OHAbout.aspx known as determinants of health. People 2020
University of http://www.ph.ucla.edu Guides HIA practitioners through considering which HIA Screening/ California Los /hs/health- HIA Process health determinants to include in the HIA and the Scoping Step N/A Scoping Checklist of N/A Angeles (UCLA) impact/training/pdfs/U Resources determinants' potential impact, including levels of Health Determinants Health Impact CLA_HIA_checklist.p likelihood and magnitude. Assessment Project df
University of California Los Webpages that provide background information on the Angeles HIA connections between different types of policies and http://www.hiaguide.or HIA Process Sectors and Causal Clearinghouse Scoping Step N/A projects and their downstream health effects. This N/A g/sectors-and-causal- Resources Pathways Learning & general information combined with local data provides a pathways Information Center foundation for HIA analysis. (UCLA HIA- CLIC)
http://www.humanimp act.org/downloads/exa mples-of-pathway- HIA Process Pathway Diagram Sample pathways diagrams connecting various issues to Human Impact Scoping Step N/A N/A diagrams-linking- Resources Examples health for use in the HIA scoping step. Partners projects-plans-and- policies-to-health- outcomes/
Centers for A guide for creating work plans in your projects. Work http://www.cdc.gov/ora HIA Process Workplans: A Program Disease Control Scoping Step N/A plans can be helpful for the HIA process in general, as N/A lhealth/state_programs/ Resources Management Tool and Prevention well as for work with stakeholders during the HIA. pdf/workplans.pdf (CDC) Centers for http://www.cdc.gov/ch HIA Process Downloadable basic and enhanced work plan templates Disease Control Scoping Step N/A Work Plan Templates N/A ronicdisease/about/foa/ Resources that can guide the development of the HIA work plan. and Prevention work-plan-temp.htm (CDC)
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A detailed spreadsheet-based assessment that uses a http://designforhealth.n Health Impact point-based scoring system to assess achievement across et/wp- HIA Process Assessment Threshold a wide variety of planning-related topics, including Assessment Step N/A N/A Design for Health content/uploads/2012/1 Resources Analysis accessibility, air quality, environment and housing 2/BCBS_HIAThreshol Workbook quality, food, mental health, physical activity, safety, d4.0_063008.pdf social capital, and water.
A template within the Assessment section of the HIA http://www.humanimp Health Impact Report Guide for documenting the direction, extent, HIA Process Human Impact act.org/downloads/hia- Assessment Step N/A Analysis - Summary of likelihood, and distribution of impacts for each health N/A Resources Partners report-guide-dec-2010- Findings outcome/health determinant, and the quality of evidence 2/ on which the assessment was based.
World Health http://www.who.int/hia HIA Process The HIA Procedure: Webpage describing the Assessment step of the HIA Assessment Step N/A N/A Organization /tools/process/en/index Resources Appraisal process. (WHO) 2.html World Health HIA Process Using Evidence Webpage that provides information on the ethical use of http://www.who.int/hia Assessment Step N/A N/A Organization Resources Within HIA evidence in the HIA process. /tools/evidenceuse/en/ (WHO)
Based on well-known methods from health economic evaluation, but adapted for more general use across http://www.folkhalsom A Guide to public health., this is intended as an introduction to Swedish National yndigheten.se/pagefiles HIA Process Quantitative Assessment Step N/A quantitative methods within HIA. Readers who need to N/A Institute of Public /12223/R2008-41- Resources Methods in Health deepen their knowledge in quantitative evaluation Health Quantitative-Methods- Impact Assessment methodologies are referred to the literature in the field or in-HIA.pdf to experts in the field.
Provides a step-by-step framework to assist practitioners in reviewing literature for use in HIA. As there may be A Guide to Reviewing limited time and resources available, this guide presents The London http://www.lho.org.uk/ HIA Process Published Evidence both essential components that must be included, even Assessment Step N/A N/A Health download.aspx?urlid=1 Resources for Use in Health in a brief literature review, and additional elements than Observatory 0846&urlt=1 Impact Assessment can be included when resources (including time and skills) permit, for more comprehensive literature reviews.
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Helps the user think about all the steps that need to be http://fieldresearch.msf taken to ensure that a good quality piece of work is A Guide to Using .org/msf/bitstream/101 HIA Process produced. Provides an introduction to qualitative Medecins Sans Assessment Step N/A Qualitative Research N/A 44/84230/1/Qualitative Resources research methods, developing qualitative research Frontieres Methodology %20research%20meth designs, methods for obtaining data, and data odology.pdf management and analysis.
Provides a list of commonly used data sources in HIA http://www.humanimp HIA Process grouped into the categories of: Demographics & Human Impact act.org/downloads/hip- Assessment Step N/A HIA Data Sources N/A Resources Background on Health Determinants, Health Data, and Partners hia-data-sources-nov- Health Benchmarks & Indicators. 2012/
Designed for use in reviewing comprehensive land use http://designforhealth.n plans, transportation plans, and neighborhood plans, and et/wp- Design for Health HIA Process is appropriate for different locations. Elements examined content/uploads/2012/1 Assessment Step N/A Comprehensive Plan N/A Design for Health Resources include land use, transportation, water resources, parks 2/BCBS_CompCheckli Review Checklists and open space, and urbanization/redevelopment/ st_092607WithIntro.pd economic development. f
Qualitative Research Methods: A Data http://www.ccs.neu.edu HIA Process Collector’s Field Introduces the fundamental elements of a qualitative Family Health /course/is4800sp12/res Assessment Step N/A N/A Resources Guide, Module 1- approach to research. International ources/qualmethods.pd Qualitative Research f Methods Overview
A Health Impact Assessment Toolkit Provides information on the objective of developing http://www.humanimp HIA Process Recommendations A Handbook to HIA recommendations, essential tasks, key points, Human Impact N/A N/A act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Step Conducting HIA, 3rd criteria, and challenges and responses in developing HIA Partners toolkit-2011/ Edition, Chapter 6. recommendations. Recommendations
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Health Impact Assessment: A Guide http://www.humanimp HIA Process Recommendations for Practice, Section Gives a brief overview of the objectives and criteria to N/A N/A Rajiv Bhatia act.org/downloads/hia- Resources Step 2.4 Recommending consider when developing HIA recommendations. guide-for-practice/ Mitigation and Alternatives
Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Pages 68-70 provide information on and practical http://www.nap.edu/cat HIA Process Recommendations National Research N/A Impact Assessment, examples of the various types of HIA recommendations N/A alog.php?record_id=13 Resources Step Council Chapter 3. Elements of that can be developed and the development process. 229 A Health Impact Assessment
http://www.humanimp Provides a basic structure for your HIA report, including HIA Process Human Impact act.org/downloads/hia- Reporting Step N/A HIA Report Guide the types of information that, at a minimum, should be N/A Resources Partners report-guide-dec-2010- included. 2/ Society of A living library of model HIA reports, intended to Practitioners of https://sophia.wildapric HIA Process Reporting Step N/A Model HIA Reports showcase examples of high quality HIA reporting N/A Health Impact ot.org/Model-HIA- Resources practice. Assessment Reports (SOPHIA) World Health http://www.who.int/hia HIA Process The HIA Procedure: Reporting Step N/A Provides information on reporting an HIA. N/A Organization /tools/process/en/index Resources Reporting (WHO) 3.html
Focuses on criteria to be used to reach an opinion on the quality of completed development A Review Package for http://hiaconnect.edu.a project HIA reports prepared in the United Kingdom, Health Impact u/wp- HIA Process but can be modified to reflect criteria consistent with the Ben Cave Reporting Step N/A Assessment Reports N/A content/uploads/2012/0 Resources decision-making contexts and HIA practice in other Associates of Development 5/hia_review_package. countries. The questions in the review package are Projects pdf intended to cover key areas in HIA and to ensure that the assessment picks up on critical issues for public health.
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Example HIA http://www.humanimp Monitoring Plan act.org/downloads/koh HIA Process Sample monitoring plan from an HIA conducted by the Human Impact Monitoring Step N/A (Hawaii County Ag N/A ala-center-health- Resources Kohala Center. Partners Development Plan impact-assessment-in- HIA) hawaii/
World Health HIA Process Webpage that provides information on the Evaluation http://www.who.int/hia Evaluation Step N/A Evaluating Your HIA N/A Organization Resources step of the HIA process. /evidence/eva/en/ (WHO) http://www.humanimp HIA Process HIA Evaluation Human Impact act.org/downloads/hia- Evaluation Step N/A Sample questions for evaluating an HIA process. N/A Resources Sample Questions Partners evaluation-sample- questions/ World Health http://www.who.int/hia HIA Process The HIA Evaluation Webpage with summaries and links to activity on HIA Evaluation Step N/A N/A Organization /evidence/cookbook/en Resources Cookbook evaluation. (WHO) /
Aims to help practitioners decide what aspects of an HIA should be evaluated and how. Uses examples of Health http://www.who.int/hia HIA Process Evaluating Health Evaluation Step N/A how different HIA teams have approached evaluation N/A Development /evidence/en/practice.p Resources Impact Assessment and explains the particular issues associated with Agency df evaluating HIA.
http://designforhealth.n Presents practical ideas for presenting information about et/wp- HIA Process Communicating about HIA Communication N/A the HIA process and the findings of HIA studies to a N/A Design for Health content/uploads/2012/1 Resources Health Impacts variety of audiences. 2/BCBS_Communicat eHIA_100207.pdf
Society of https://sophia.wildapric Community Communicating about Practitioners of ot.org/resources/Docu HIA Process Participation, Equity in Health Health Impact N/A Serves as a guide to aid HIA practitioners in their efforts N/A ments/Communicating Resources Partnerships, and Impact Assessment: A Assessment to communicate about equity as an essential step _Equity_in_HIA_Final Equity Guide for Practitioners (SOPHIA) Equity towards advancing equity through .pdf Working Group practice.
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A set of process and outcome metrics related to Society of Community promoting equity through HIA developed through a Practitioners of https://sophia.wildapric Equity Metrics for HIA Process Participation, consensus process. These metrics provide more detail to Health Impact ot.org/resources/Docu N/A Health Impact N/A Resources Partnerships, and the Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Assessment ments/EquityMetrics_F Assessment Practice Equity HIA, Version 3 regarding the incorporation of equity (SOPHIA) Equity INAL.pdf into HIA practice. Working Group
Public participation’ means to involve those who are affected by a decision in the decision-making process. It http://c.ymcdn.com/sit Community promotes sustainable decisions by providing participants International es/www.iap2.org/resou HIA Process Participation, IAP2 Spectrum of with the information they need to be involved in a Association for N/A N/A rce/resmgr/imported/IA Resources Partnerships, and Public Participation meaningful way, and it communicates to participants Public P2%20Spectrum_verti Equity how their input affects the decision. The practice of Participation cal.pdf public participation is a spectrum that ranges from Informing to Empowering.
Serves as a primer to demonstrate: 1) how HIA PolicyLink; Adler practitioners and equity advocates can ensure that the School of practice of HIA maintains a strong focus on promoting Professional equity; and 2) how HIA can be used as a tool to support Community Promoting Equity Psychology; http://www.policylink. equitable decision-making processes and outcomes. HIA Process Participation, through the Practice of Human Impact org/sites/default/files/P N/A Describes the centrality of equity in HIA implementation N/A Resources Partnerships, and Health Impact Partners; San ROMOTINGEQUITY in order to advance just and fair outcomes, and presents Equity Assessment Francisco HIA_FINAL.PDF a set of principles for guidance in HIA practice. Also Department of provides specific strategies for implementing each Public Health principle, identifies key challenges to this work, as well (SFDPH) as suggestions for overcoming the challenges.
Highlights and explains the issues associated with addressing inequalities through HIA and offers advice http://www.impactsant Community Addressing and guidance based on ways in which other practitioners Health e.ch/pdf/NHS_HDA_A HIA Process Participation, Inequalities have overcome challenges and achieved success. N/A N/A Development dressing%20inequalitie Resources Partnerships, and through Health Impact Identifies other sources of information on general Agency s%20through%20HIA_ Equity Assessment aspects of addressing inequalities and suggests some %202003 lessons that can be learned from other areas of public health practice.
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Public Health Policy http://www.humanimp Brief- Tackling the act.org/downloads/tack Root Causes of Health Case study of how one health department transformed ling-the-root-causes-of- Community Inequities: How the its culture and practice to focus on non-traditional health-inequities-how- HIA Process Participation, Alameda County Human Impact N/A policies that impact health inequities while continuing to N/A the-alameda-county- Resources Partnerships, and Public Health Partners provide traditional and essential public health services public-health- Equity Department is and programming. department-is- Addressing the Social addressing-the-social- Determinants of determinants-of-health/ Health
http://designforhealth.n Community Building Public Deals with the issues of how the public can participate et/wp- HIA Process Participation, Understanding: The in planning for health and which Design for Health tools N/A N/A Design for Health content/uploads/2012/1 Resources Partnerships, and Link Between Health can be used in participation processes or modified for 2/BCBS_PublicPart_0 Equity and Planning such use. 91007.pdf
Distills stakeholder participation techniques, case studies, and guiding principles from various fields of expertise, including HIA, environmental and social Stakeholder Guidance and Best https://sophia.wildapric Community impact assessment, land use and transportation Participation Practices for ot.org/resources/Docu HIA Process Participation, planning, community-based participatory research, and Working Group of N/A Stakeholder N/A ments/guide-for- Resources Partnerships, and public health. Provides a Stakeholder Analysis the 2010 HIA of Participation in Health stakeholder- Equity worksheet for identifying potential stakeholders, their the Americas Impact Assessments participation.pdf interest in the issue, what they can bring to the HIA, Workshop their potential role and power of influence, and ideal ways to engage them.
Community Website that provides practical information for those HIA Process Participation, Bertelsmann http://participationcom N/A Participation Compass working to involve people in projects, including N/A Resources Partnerships, and Stiftung; Involve pass.org/ methods, cases, library resources, news, and experts. Equity
A website that provides resources to advocate and Community U.S. https://www.epa.gov/su strengthen early and meaningful community HIA Process Participation, Superfund Community Environmental perfund/superfund- N/A participation during Superfund cleanups. Includes N/A Resources Partnerships, and Involvement Protection Agency community- technical assistance, tools and resources, community Equity (EPA) involvement advisory groups, trainings, and more.
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Planning and Identifies principles of good practice in community Engaging with engagement, participatory urban planning, and Comedia; Community Intercultural development and how participatory planning and Academy for http://www.apho.org.u HIA Process Participation, N/A Communities: development can contribute to community cohesion. N/A Sustainable k/resource/view.aspx? Resources Partnerships, and Building the Provides strategies and actions for capturing the Communities RID=92343 Equity Knowledge and Skills diversity of and managing conflict in intercultural (ASC) Base community planning and development.
Provides guidance to stakeholders in the mining industry Chamber of Mines on how to extract the greatest benefit from public Community Public Participation of South Africa; participation. In particular, the document provides http://commdev.org/us HIA Process Participation, Guidelines for Consultative N/A guidance on the scale and extent of public participation N/A erfiles/files/725_file_C Resources Partnerships, and Stakeholders in the Forum on Mining for different types of projects, from short-duration, MSA_PPGuide.pdf Equity Mining Industry and the inexpensive processes to long, complex, costly Environment processes.
http://www.humanimp Community Provides information on opportunities for stakeholder Opportunities for act.org/downloads/opp HIA Process Participation, engagement in each step of the HIA process, examples Human Impact N/A Stakeholder N/A ortunities-for- Resources Partnerships, and of these roles collaborators can play, and potential Partners Engagement stakeholder- Equity collaborators. engagement/
A worksheet that can be used to document potential Stakeholder Community stakeholder groups, their representatives, the Participation http://www.humanimp HIA Process Participation, Stakeholder Analysis information or expertise they hold, the role that they can Working Group of act.org/wp- N/A N/A Resources Partnerships, and Worksheet play, their interests or concerns about the HIA or the 2010 HIA of content/uploads/Stakeh Equity project, any power to influence the project, and the Americas older-Analysis.pdf opportunities to communicate. Workshop
Society of Provides practical tools for planning and budgeting for Community Practitioners of https://sophia.wildapric Stakeholder various activities to involve stakeholders, including HIA Process Participation, Health Impact ot.org/resources/Docu N/A Engagement: Planning decision makers, community members, and others who N/A Resources Partnerships, and Assessment ments/SEBudgetResou and Budget Resource might be impacted by a decision; and build meaningful Equity (SOPHIA) Equity rce.pdf stakeholder engagement into their HIA budgets upfront. Working Group
Page 29 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category An example Stakeholder Engagement Plan, which was used to steer the Hough Health Impact Assessment http://www.humanimp Community Example HIA through the various interactions with stakeholders. It act.org/wp- HIA Process Participation, Stakeholder laid out the landscape of stakeholders that the Project Design for Public N/A N/A content/uploads/Exam Resources Partnerships, and Engagement Plan would engage with and identified the different Interest ple-Stakeholder- Equity (Healthy Hough HIA) mechanisms of effectively interacting with them. Engagement-Plan.pdf
Community http://www.humanimp Talking about Health, This exercise provides a useful framework to discuss HIA Process Participation, Human Impact act.org/wp- N/A Place, and Policy - how health outcomes are a product of social N/A Resources Partnerships, and Partners content/uploads/Tree- Tree Exercise determinants. Equity Exercise.pdf
Provides best practice guidelines for stakeholder engagement, addressing when and why stakeholders Community BiodivERsA should be engaged, how to identify stakeholders, HIA Process Participation, Stakeholder http://www.biodiversa. N/A planning stakeholder engagement, methods of N/A BiodivERsA Resources Partnerships, and Engagement org/705/download engagement and how to match those methods with the Equity Handbook level of engagement, managing stakeholder conflict, and monitoring and evaluating engagement.
The Stakeholder Engagement Manual, Community Volume 2: The Provides a valuable step-by-step guide through the http://www.accountabil HIA Process Participation, N/A Practitioner's processes of engaging with N/A AccountAbility ity.org/images/content/ Resources Partnerships, and Handbook on stakeholders. 2/0/208.pdf Equity Stakeholder Engagement
Community Promotes a meaningful practice of public participation International Public Participation: HIA Process Participation, amongst impact assessment (IA) practitioners. This Association for http://www.iaia.org/upl N/A International Best N/A Resources Partnerships, and document collates the principles for a state-of-the-art Impact Assessment oads/pdf/SP4.pdf Practice Principles Equity public participation practice. (IAIA)
Rich website resource providing principles, scenarios, http://www.community Community and case studies on incorporating community planning planning.net/ HIA Process Participation, The Community into a project process. The catalogue of featured Community N/A N/A Resources Partnerships, and Planning Website methods for community planning is a particularly useful Planning http://www.community Equity resource, providing descriptions and details on getting planning.net/methods/ community members involved in planning and design. methods_a-z.php
Page 30 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Community How to Develop a University of https://web.extension.il HIA Process Participation, Provides information, resources, and a sample N/A Memorandum of N/A Illinois at Urbana- linois.edu/cook/factshe Resources Partnerships, and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Understanding Champaign ets/fs1162.html Equity Community http://www.countyhealt Sample Template HIA Process Participation, A template for drafting an MOU agreement with HIA County Health hrankings.org/resource N/A Memorandums of N/A Resources Partnerships, and partners. Rankings s/memorandum- Understanding (MOU) Equity understanding Community Sample Centers for www.cdc.gov/cancer/n HIA Process Participation, Memorandums of A template for drafting an MOU agreement with HIA Disease Control N/A N/A cccp/doc/SampleMOA Resources Partnerships, and Understanding partners. and Prevention Template.doc Equity Template (CDC)
Website that provides research addressing the root Built Environment causes of childhood obesity and physical inactivity, with Literature/ Environment Active Living a focus on communities, active transportation, schools, Active Living http://activelivingresea Databases N/A Evidence Databases Health and Healthcare Research and parks and recreation. Resources include research Research rch.org/ Transportation papers and articles, tools, measures, research briefs, policy and practice impact stories, and more.
Website that provides comprehensive cancer Literature/ American Cancer information on all types of cancer, including facts, American Cancer Databases Health and Healthcare N/A http://www.cancer.org/ Evidence Databases Society statistics, prevention, detection, treatments, side effects, Society and more.
Website that provides information on common health Literature/ American Heart conditions, such as arrhythmia, cholesterol, congenital American Heart http://www.heart.org/H Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Evidence Databases Association defects, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure, high blood Association EARTORG/ pressure, and more.
Website that provides information on lung diseases, including lung cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Literature/ American Lung Pulmonary Disease (COPD), influenza, and more. Also American Lung Databases Health and Healthcare N/A http://www.lung.org/ Evidence Databases Association provides data and reports on lung disease, tobacco Association control, air quality, health disparities research, and more. http://www.thecochran Literature/ The Cochrane A collection of databases containing medicine and The Cochrane Databases Health and Healthcare N/A elibrary.com/view/0/in Evidence Databases Library healthcare-related information. Collection dex.html
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Illustrates scientific evidence for linkages between http://enviroatlas.epa.g human health and ecosystem services (i.e., benefits ov/enviroatlas/Tools/E supplied by Nature). Provides information about several coHealth_Relationship of our nation's major ecosystems, the services they U.S. Browser/index.html Literature/ Environment Eco-Health provide, and how those services, or their degradation Environmental Databases N/A Evidence Databases Health and Healthcare Relationship Browser and loss, may affect people. Designed so that users can Protection Agency https://www.epa.gov/e easily explore the services ecosystems provide and how (EPA) nviroatlas/enviroatlas- those services affect human health and well-being. The eco-health-relationship- research summarized in this tool represents a broad browser selection of recent evidence.
Online literature search database that allows users to search library collections around the world for an item Online Computer Literature/ http://www.worldcat.or Databases N/A WorldCat of interest ( full-text articles, electronic books and N/A Library Center, Evidence Databases g/ journals, digitized special collections, etc.) and then Inc. (OCLC) locate a nearby library that owns it.
Online literature search database from Google that allows you to search for articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, Literature/ http://scholar.google.co Databases N/A Google Scholar professional societies, online repositories, universities, N/A Google Evidence Databases m/ and other web sites. Lists related articles, articles with citation, and will automatically format citations in APA, MLA, and Chicago style.
Online research website offering summaries and University of Built Environment reference links to over 1,800 research publications Washington, Literature/ Green Cities: Good http://depts.washington Databases Environment Health focused on the scientific evidence behind the N/A School of Evidence Databases Health .edu/hhwb/ and Healthcare relationship and benefits provided to human health and Environmental and well-being from urban forestry and urban greening. Forest Sciences
Literature/ A digital library of more than 2,300 academic journals, Databases N/A JSTOR N/A ITHAKA http://www.jstor.org/ Evidence Databases books, and primary sources.
Provides access to government and legal information, https://www.lexisnexis. Literature/ LexisNexis including government and political news, legal news, Databases N/A N/A LexisNexis com/hottopics/lnacade Evidence Databases Academic law reviews, and state and federal statutes and case law. mic/ $
Page 32 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Provides access to biomedical databases, journals, Literature/ books, and other collections related to the health http://www.ovid.com/s Databases Health and Healthcare Ovid/Ovid MEDLINE N/A Wolters Kluwer Evidence Databases sciences. ite/index.jsp $
A literature site that is comprised of more than 24 National Center for million citations for biomedical literature from Biotechnology http://www.nlm.nih.go Literature/ Databases Health and Healthcare MEDLINE/PubMed MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. N/A Information; U.S. v/pubs/factsheets/pub Evidence Databases Citations may include links to full-text content from National Library of med.html PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Medicine
Provides citations and abstracts for peer-reviewed ProQuest journal articles, books, chapters, essays, dissertations, Literature/ http://www.proquest.co Databases N/A (formerly CSA and more. Users can select a subject area or search N/A ProQuest LLC Evidence Databases m/ Illumina) across all subjects. $
An abstracting and indexing database of peer-reviewed American http://www.apa.org/pu Literature/ Databases Health and Healthcare PsycINFO literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. N/A Psychological bs/databases/psycinfo/i Evidence Databases $ Association ndex.aspx
Literature/ A full-text scientific database offering access to journal http://www.sciencedire Databases N/A Science Direct N/A Elsevier Evidence Databases articles and book chapters. ct.com/
World’s largest abstract and citation database of peer Literature/ reviewed literature. Includes tools that track, analyze, http://www.scopus.co Databases N/A Scopus N/A Elsevier Evidence Databases and visualize research. m/ $
Literature database that searches journals, books, Literature/ http://link.springer.co Databases N/A SpringerLink reference works, and protocols in all disciplines. N/A Springer Evidence Databases m/ $
An integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Transportation Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Literature/ Research Board of Databases Transportation TRID Database and the Organisation for Economic N/A http://trid.trb.org/ Evidence Databases the National Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’s) International Academies Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. Provides access to transportation research worldwide.
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Online research platform that allows users to access Web of Science Literature/ journal articles, patents, websites, conference http://apps.webofknowl Databases N/A (formerly Web of N/A Thomson Reuters Evidence Databases proceedings, and Open Access materials in the sciences, edge.com/ Knowledge) social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Business and Industry Crime Provides access to data about the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Demographics State the Island Areas from multiple U.S. Census Bureau Economics County General Data censuses and surveys, including: Decennial Census, U.S. Census http://factfinder2.censu Databases Education American FactFinder City Warehouses American Community Survey (ACS), American Bureau s.gov/ Housing Town Housing Survey (AHS), Economic Census, Census of Labor and Workplace Zip Code Governments, Population Estimates Program, and more. Population Transportation
Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry Institute for Crime People, Place, and An interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility Demographics Possibility (IP3); for the broad-based healthy, sustainable, and livable Economics Center for Applied http://www.community General Data communities’ movement. Provides data, maps, and tools Databases Education Community Commons Varies Research and commons.org/maps- Warehouses by geographic location and topics. Topics include Environment Environmental data/ economy, education, environment, equity, food, and Health and Healthcare Systems (CARES); health. Housing Community Labor and Workplace Initiatives Population Transportation
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Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry Crime Demographics Houses the U.S. Government's open data on a wide Economics General Data range of topics. Users can find federal, state, and local General Services Databases Education Data.gov Varies www.data.gov Warehouses data, tools, and resources to conduct research, build Administration Environment apps, design data visualizations, and more. Health Housing Labor and Workplace Population Transportation
https://www.census.go Demographics Provides demographic, population, and housing data at General Data U.S. Census v/programs- Databases Housing Decennial Census state, county, city, zip code, census tract, block group, Varies Warehouses Bureau surveys/decennial- Population and block levels, every 10 years. census.html Provides business and economic data at the national, General Data Business and Industry state, county and local levels. The various data are U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/ Databases Economic Census Varies Warehouses Economics collected at intervals ranging from monthly to every five Bureau econ/census/ years.
Provides quick and easy access to selected statistics Business and Industry collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the Demographics American Community Survey, including detailed Economics demographic and economic statistics made available for General Data U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/ Databases Education Easy Stats every year. Users can search different geographies, Varies Warehouses Bureau easystats/ Housing including states, counties, incorporated places Labor and Workplace (towns/cities) and census designated places (CDP). With Population Easy Stats, users can view detailed racial, age, and sex breakdowns and much more.
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Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry Provides access to the full range of official statistical Crime information produced by the Federal Government Demographics without having to know in advance which Federal Economics agency produces which particular statistic. Includes General Data http://fedstats.sites.usa. Databases Education FedStats convenient searching and linking capabilities for more Varies FedStats Warehouses gov/ Environment than 100 agencies that provide data and trend Health and Healthcare information on such topics as economic and population Housing trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, Labor and Workplace energy use, farm production, and more. Population Transportation
Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry Crime Demographics Provides a one-stop shop to free shared and trusted Federal Economics geospatial data, services, and applications that allow General Data Geographic Data https://www.geoplatfor Databases Education GeoPlatform governmental, academic, private, and public data and Varies Warehouses Committee m.gov/ Environment applications to be visualized together to inform and (FGDC) Health and Healthcare address issues at various geographic scales. Housing Labor and Workplace Population Transportation
Business and Industry Education State General Data A quick data search tool that provides basic Census data U.S. Census http://quickfacts.censu Databases Demographics QuickFacts County Warehouses on people, business, and geography. Bureau s.gov/qfd/index.html Housing City Population
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The longest running, most comprehensive accounting of all major uses of public and private land in the United U.S. Department Agriculture States, including cropland. The series was started in Nation http://www.ers.usda.go Multi-Topic Major Land Uses of Agriculture Databases Built Environment 1945, and has since been published about every five Region v/data-products/major- Databases (MLU) (USDA) Economic Environment years, coinciding with the Census of Agriculture. The State land-uses.aspx Research Service latest updates for most of the data is from December 2011 and the next update is scheduled for January 2016.
A data search website that provides a snapshot of a EPA Region regulated facility's environmental record, including State permit data, inspection data, violations, enforcement U.S. Built Environment Enforcement & County Multi-Topic actions, toxic releases, and penalties. Users can perform Environmental Databases Demographics Compliance History City https://echo.epa.gov/ Databases a location-based search, a targeted facility search, create Protection Agency Environment Online (ECHO) Zip code maps, and analyze trends. Detailed facility reports also (EPA) Facility name or ID identify facility location by watershed and provide a Watershed demographic profile of the surrounding area.
A nationwide geographic data resource for measuring location efficiency. Includes more than 90 attributes Built Environment summarizing characteristics such as housing density, Demographics U.S. diversity of land use, neighborhood design, destination https://www.epa.gov/s Multi-Topic Housing Smart Location Environmental Databases accessibility, transit service, employment, and All martgrowth/smart- Databases Labor and Workplace Database Protection Agency demographics. Most attributes are available for every location-mapping#SLD Population (EPA) census block group in the U.S. Users are able to Transportation download data or view data in an interactive map viewer.
State Provides a cross-section of environmental information County for the user's location, including information on air U.S. Built Environment Zip code Multi-Topic quality, water resources and water quality, climate, Environmental https://www3.epa.gov/ Databases Environment MyEnvironment City Databases energy statistics, and health data, including related Protection Agency enviro/myenviro/ Health and Healthcare Waterbody pollutants, toxic and hazardous waste sites, and (EPA) Park name environmental reports. Address
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Walk Score data is available upon request and can be provided for individual addresses or larger geographic areas like postal codes. Data is available in a variety of City formats including shapefiles, spreadsheets, and via an http://www.walkscore. Multi-Topic Built Environment Local Walk Score Databases Walk Score Data application programming interfaces (APIs). Data com/professional/resea Databases Transportation Zip code Professional products include walk score, transit score, bike score, rch.php Address travel time, analysis, pedestrian friendliness metrics, public transit data, points of interest, and care and bike shares.
Nation State Purdue Center for County Business and Industry Regional Metropolitan and Economics Development; A datafinder tool that allows you to view and download micropolitan http://www.statsameric Multi-Topic Education Innovation Data Indiana Business Databases individual data items for any state, metro, micro, district statistical area a.org/innovation/anyda Databases Housing Browser Research Center at or county in the nation. Combined statistical ta/ Labor and Workplace Indiana area Population University's Kelley Economic School of Business Development District
Web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive State Quarterly Workforce access to the full depth and breadth of the QWI dataset. County Multi-Topic Business and Industry U.S. Census http://qwiexplorer.ces.c Databases Indicators (QWI) Through charts and interactive tables, users can Metropolitan areas Databases Labor and Workplace Bureau ensus.gov/ Explorer compare, rank, and aggregate QWIs and worker Workforce characteristics across time, geography, and/or firm. investment areas
http://www.epa.gov/en A collection of tools and resources that provides viroatlas geospatial data, maps, research, and analysis on the relationships between nature, people, health, and the https://www.epa.gov/si economy. Contains information on the status of the Demographics Nation U.S. tes/production/files/20 benefits that humans receive from nature, the Multi-Topic Economics State Environmental 14- Databases EnviroAtlas ecosystems that provide and protect them, and related Databases Environment County Protection Agency 06/documents/enviroatl health and economic impacts. Two primary spatial Health and Healthcare Select cities (EPA) as-fact-sheet.pdf scales are featured in EnviroAtlas. The national component is based on 30-meter resolution land cover https://www.epa.gov/e data and summarized by subwatersheds (in 12-digit nviroatlas/enviroatlas- hydrologic unit codes) for the contiguous United States. communities
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http://thedataweb.rm.ce Demographics Provides information on how well a community is nsus.gov/TheDataWeb Sustainable Nation Partnerships for Multi-Topic Economics performing on a variety of sustainability indicators in _HotReport2/EPA2/EP Databases Communities State Sustainable Databases Housing the area of transportation, housing, economic A_HomePage2.hrml?S HotReport County Communities Transportation development, income, and equity. TATE=37&COUNTY =2123
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Provides estimates of household costs, housing, and State Development transportation. Features two cutting edge tools - the My Economics County (HUD); U.S. http://www.locationaff Multi-Topic Location Affordability Transportation Cost Calculator and Location Databases Housing City Department of ordability.info/lai.aspx Databases Portal Affordability Index (LAI) - and provides access to Transportation Census block groups Transportation ?url=download.php resources on the combined housing and transportation Local (DOT); U.S. cost burden bore by families in the U.S.. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.ers.usda.go Provides time-series data on state- and county-level Supplemental U.S. Department v/data- estimates of SNAP participation and benefit levels, Multi-Topic Economics Nutrition Assistance State of Agriculture products/supplemental- Databases combined with area estimates of total population, the Databases Health and Healthcare Program (SNAP) Data County (USDA) Economic nutrition-assistance- number of persons in poverty, and select socio- System Research Service program-(snap)-data- demographic characteristics of the population. system.aspx
Provides access to various nutrition and hunger studies, U.S. Department of information resources, and data, including data on food U.S. Department http://www.fns.usda.go Multi-Topic Economics Agriculture (USDA) security, food assistance and nutrition programs, Nation of Agriculture Databases v/get-involved/access- Databases Health and Healthcare Food and Nutrition Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and State (USDA) Food and data Service Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) participation Nutrition Service rates and economic benefits.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded, nationally-recognized research program dedicated to Robert Wood Multi-Topic Education Bridging the Gap http://www.bridgingthe Databases improving the understanding of how policies and Varies Johnson Databases Health and Healthcare (BTG) gapresearch.org/ environmental factors influence diet, physical activity, Foundation and obesity among youth, as well as youth tobacco use.
Page 39 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category State Centers for School Health Policies Provides data from a national survey periodically http://www.cdc.gov/he Multi-Topic Education School district Disease Control Databases and Practices Study conducted to assess school health policies and practices althyyouth/shpps/index Databases Health and Healthcare School and Prevention (SHPPS) at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. .htm Classroom (CDC)
Website that uses two policy classification systems to score state-level codified laws for physical education (PE) and nutrition in schools. Scoring criteria for these systems are based on current public health research and Classification of Laws national recommendations and standards for PE and http://class.cancer.gov/ Multi-Topic Education Associated with nutrition in schools. Data, maps, and profiles can be National Cancer Databases State Databases Health and Healthcare School Students used to compare PE and nutrition laws from all 50 states Institute http://class.cancer.gov/ (C.L.A.S.S.) and the District of Columbia against national standards download.aspx and medians, allowing users to assess differences across states and changes over time. Data are currently available for download from 2003-2012; after 2008, policies are coded every two years.
An online information access and community mapping tool that communities can use to learn more about environmental, health and socioeconomic issues in their https://www.epa.gov/h Community-Focused U.S. community. The tool includes local maps and reports, ealthresearch/communi Multi-Topic Environment Exposure and Risk Environmental Databases fact sheets, links to other public health decision-making Local ty-focused-exposure- Databases Health and Healthcare Screening Tool (C- Protection Agency tools, information about promising sustainable and-risk-screening-tool- FERST) (EPA) community solutions, and structured community guides c-ferst that can help communities assess environmental conditions in their communities.
National Centers for Environmental Public Provides links to 25 state and 1 city public health http://ephtracking.cdc. Multi-Topic Environment Select states Disease Control Databases Health Tracking tracking system websites that feed into the national gov/showStateTracking Databases Health and Healthcare Select city and Prevention Network: State and tracking network. .action (CDC) Local Tracking Portals
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A master database that provides access to other human https://www.epa.gov/h activity databases using a consistent format. Contains U.S. ealthresearch/consolida Consolidated Human Nation Multi-Topic Environment data obtained from pre-existing human activity studies Environmental ted-human-activity- Databases Activity Database State Databases Health and Healthcare that were collected at city, state, and national levels. Protection Agency database-chad-use- (CHAD) City Intended to be an input file for exposure/intake dose (EPA) human-exposure-and- modeling and/or statistical analysis. health-studies-and
Identifies and characterizes the health hazards of chemicals found in the environment. Each IRIS U.S. Integrated Risk Multi-Topic Environment assessment can cover a chemical, a group of related Environmental http://www.epa.gov/iris Databases Information System N/A Databases Health and Healthcare chemicals, or a complex mixture and provides toxicity Protection Agency / (IRIS) values for health effects resulting from chronic exposure (EPA) to chemicals.
https://www.epa.gov/h An online information and mapping decision-support ealthresearch/tribal- tool designed to provide tribes with easy access to the focused-environmental- Tribal-Focused best available human health and ecological science. U.S. risk-and-sustainability- Multi-Topic Environment Environmental Risk Assists tribal communities with identifying priority Environmental tool-t-ferst Databases Tribal communities Databases Health and Healthcare and Sustainability issues, compiling data, addressing risks, and assessing Protection Agency Tool (T-FERST) impacts of actions taken. Provides easy access to maps, (EPA) https://www.epa.gov/si information, and location-specific environmental data tes/production/files/20 and estimated human exposures and risks. 13-12/documents/tribal- ferst-fact-sheet.pdf
Allows easy access to toxicity information from multiple http://www2.epa.gov/to data sources for chemicals in the Toxic Release U.S. TRI-Chemical Hazard xics-release-inventory- Multi-Topic Environment Inventory (TRI) list. This downloadable Microsoft Environmental Databases Information Profiles N/A tri-program/tri- Databases Health and Healthcare Access database allows you to customize searches across Protection Agency (TRI-CHIP) chemical-hazard- a single chemical, a set of specific chemicals, or a TRI (EPA) information-profiles chemical category of interest.
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A system of integrated health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, National and city sources. Users can view maps, tables, and Centers for Nation Multi-Topic Environment Environmental Public charts with data about: chemicals and other substances Disease Control http://ephtracking.cdc. Databases State Databases Health and Healthcare Health Tracking found in the environment, some chronic diseases and and Prevention gov/showHome.action County Network conditions, and the area where they live. Also includes (CDC) content and tools that illustrate how Tracking Network data can be used in HIAs.
State data presenting the number and frequency of work- related injuries, illnesses, and fatal injuries available from two U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) programs. Nonfatal cases of work-related injuries and illnesses that are recorded by employers under the State Occupational Occupational Safety and Health Administration's U.S. Bureau of Multi-Topic Health and Healthcare http://www.bls.gov/iif/ Databases Injuries, Illnesses, and (OSHA's) recordkeeping guidelines are available for 46 State Labor Statistics Databases Labor and Workplace oshstate.htm Fatalities states and territories from the BLS Survey of (BLS) Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). Fatal cases of work-related injuries are available for all states, territories, and New York City under a separate program, the BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).
Provides the latest U.S. farm sector income and wealth statistics, including financial indicators, farm income statement data, cash receipts, government payments, U.S. Department http://www.ers.usda.go U.S. and State Farm production expenses, farm balance sheets and financial Nation of Agriculture v/data-products/farm- Databases Agriculture N/A Income and Wealth ratios, and average (farm-level) net cash income. Also State (USDA) Economic income-and-wealth- Statistics includes charts, maps, and data visualizations, as well as Research Service statistics.aspx historical U.S. and state-level farm income and wealth statistics.
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Possible data Data may be available on agricultural production, sources may commodities, economics, land cover, and more. include: State Available data will vary place to place. State, County, or State, County, and County Databases Agriculture N/A City Department of N/A Local Agriculture Data City Examples include: Agriculture; Local • New York Farm Bureau Agricultural • Illinois Department of Agriculture Associations; Farm Bureau
Possible data sources may include: State, County, and City Planning Departments; Departments of Building Data may be available on topics such as planning, Inspection; development, zoning, permits, and building data. State, County, and Departments of Available data will vary place to place. State Local Planning, Building and County Databases Built Environment N/A Development, Zoning Zoning; N/A Examples include: City Permits, and Building Departments of • Butler County Department of Development Building Local Data Planning and and Zoning Development; • San Francisco Planning Department Bureaus/Departme nts of Planning and Building; Department of Community Development; Zoning Administration
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Data may be available on property tax records, Possible data vacancies, market values, and parcels. Some locations sources may provide GIS mapping for parcels and properties as well. State include: State, County, and Available data will vary place to place. County State, County, and Databases Built Environment N/A Local Property and N/A City City Auditors or Parcel Data An example includes: Local Assessors; • King County GIS Center Parcel Viewer 2.0 Departments of • Clark County Assessor Parcel Data and Property Revenue Records
Possible data sources may include: State, County, and Data and statistics may be available on existing City Departments businesses and industries in an area. Available data will or Centers of vary place to place. Business and State Industry; State, County, and Examples include: County Chambers or Databases Business and Industry N/A Local Business and N/A • Kansas Business and Industry Data Center City Associations; Industry Data • Loudoun County (VA) Department of Economic Local Secretaries of Development State; Departments • City of Cleveland Department of Economic of Business Development Development and Retention; Departments of Economic Development
Possible data Data may be available on sales tax revenue, tax rates, tax sources may distributions, tax by industry, and property taxes. State include: Available data will vary place to place. State, County, and County State, County, and Databases Business and Industry N/A N/A Local Sales Tax Data City City Department of Examples include: Local Taxation or • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Department of Revenue Revenue
Page 44 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Website housing statistics on a wide range of justice- http://www.bjs.gov/ U.S. Bureau of U.S. Bureau of Justice related topics, including crime type, victims, law Databases Crime N/A Varies Justice Statistics Statistics (BJS) enforcement, courts, and corrections, in addition to http://www.bjs.gov/ind (BJS) others. ex.cfm?ty=dca
Produces annual national and state-level data on the number of prisoners in state and federal prison facilities. Aggregate data are collected on race and sex of prison National Prisoner inmates, inmates held in private facilities and local jails, Federal U.S. Bureau of http://www.bjs.gov/ind Databases Crime N/A Statistics (NPS) system capacity, noncitizens, and persons under age 18. State Justice Statistics ex.cfm?ty=dcdetail&ii Program Findings are released in the Prisoners series. Data are Local (BJS) d=269 from the 50 state department of corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and until 2001, from the District of Columbia.
Department of Website allowing users to search for statistics on violent http://www.ucrdatatool Uniform Crime Nation Justice (DOJ) Databases Crime N/A and property crimes nationally, by state, and by agency, .gov/Search/Crime/Cri Reporting Statistics State Federal Bureau of between 1960 and 2012. me.cfm Investigation (FBI)
Data may be available on crimes, including a variety of Possible data violent and non-violent criminal offenses. Crime sources may reporting is not uniform across national, regional, state, include: county, and city departments and agencies. Available State, County, or data will vary place to place. City Offices of State Criminal Justice State, County, and County Databases Crime N/A An example of local crime data: Services; N/A Local Crime Data • Denver Police Department Crime Statistics City Police Local Departments; Sheriff Departments; Departments of Public Safety
Provides monthly data on changes in the prices paid by U.S. Bureau of Consumer Price Index http://www.bls.gov/cpi Databases Economics N/A urban consumers for a representative basket of goods Nation Labor Statistics (CPI) / and services. (BLS) Region Website that provides links to socioeconomic data State Impresa, Inc., sources, arranged by subject and provider; points to Databases Economics N/A EconData.net County Andrew Reamer & http://econdata.net/ premiere online data collections; and lists the ten best Zip Code Associates sites for finding regional economic data. Census Tract
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Estimates the cost of living for a select location. Lists State Massachusetts Living Wage typical expenses and living wage by twelve different County http://livingwage.mit.e Databases Economics N/A Institute of Calculator family compositions, as well as typical annual salaries Metro Area du/ Technology for the location. City
Possible data sources may Data may be available for domestic and international include: trade, import and export statistics, industry, business State, County, and State, County, and licensing, economic trends, performance measures, City City Departments Local Trade, travel, and tourism. Available data will vary place to Local related to Databases Economics N/A Economic place. N/A Zip code Commerce, or Development, and Address Trade and Commerce Data An example include: Development, or • Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Trade and Development Data Tools Economic Development
A program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics that annually State collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public Public school district schools, public school districts, and state education Public school name National Center for Common Core of Data Databases Education N/A agencies in the United States. Includes information that Public/private Education http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/ (CCD) describes schools and school districts, including name, elementary and Statistics address, and phone number; descriptive information secondary schools about students and staff, including demographics; and Address fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures.
Provides information on a variety of educational topics, from educational attainment and school enrollment to school costs and financing. Topic areas include: U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/ Databases Education N/A Education Data Varies educational attainment, school enrollment, public school Bureau topics/education.html system finances, school districts, and educational services.
National Center for Provides a list of data search tools that allow users to National Center for http://nces.ed.gov/datat Databases Education N/A Education Statistics search for data on colleges, public and private schools, Varies Education ools/index.asp Data Tools public libraries, and public school districts. Statistics
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A variety of education data may be available, including Possible data graduation and drop out rates, attendance, transportation sources may data, demographics, district and school report cards, and State include: State, County, and more. Available data will vary place to place. County State Education Databases Education N/A N/A Local Education Data City Department/Agenc An example includes: Local y; County Office • Los Angeles Unified School District School of Education; Locator/School Profile & Performance School Districts
Since 1986, ATSDR has been required by law to Agency for Toxic conduct a public health assessment at each of the sites Substances and on the EPA National Priorities List. The aim of these State Centers for Disease Registry evaluations is to find out if people are being exposed to County Disease Control http://www.atsdr.cdc.g Databases Environment N/A (ATSDR) Public hazardous substances and, if so, whether that exposure City and Prevention ov/hac/pha/index.asp Health Assessments is harmful and should be stopped or reduced. If Local (CDC) and Health appropriate, ATSDR also conducts public health Consultations assessments when petitioned by concerned individuals.
Agency for Toxic Centers for Substances and Information about toxic substances and how they affect http://www.atsdr.cdc.g Disease Control Databases Environment N/A Disease Registry health. Searchable by alphabetic list, health effect, N/A ov/substances/index.as and Prevention (ATSDR) Toxic chemical class, or by audience. p (CDC) Substances Portal
Provides air quality information based on specific health conditions of interest, such as asthma or other lung disease, heart disease, older adults and children, active U.S. outdoors, and general population. Results are based on State Environmental http://www.epa.gov/air Databases Environment N/A AirCompare the Air Quality Index, which considers several principal County Protection Agency compare/ air pollutants. The number of unhealthy days based on (EPA) the levels of these pollutants is reported for locations of interest and summarized monthly, providing a basis for comparing air quality. Historical data are also available.
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Gives you access to air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The data comes primarily from the AQS (Air Quality System) database. AirData lets you display and download monitored hourly, daily, and U.S. State annual concentration data, AQI data, and speciated Environmental http://www.epa.gov/air Databases Environment N/A AirData County particle pollution data. Users can choose from several Protection Agency data/ City ways of looking at the data: download data into a file (or (EPA) view it on the screen), output the data into one of AirData’s standard reports, create graphical displays using one of the visualization tools, and investigate monitor locations using an interactive map.
https://www.epa.gov/ai AirTrends U.S. r-trends (National Air Quality: Presents the trends in the nation's air quality, including Environmental Databases Environment N/A Nation Status and Trends of status and trends of key air pollutants. Protection Agency https://gispub.epa.gov/ Key Air Pollutants) (EPA) air/trendsreport/2016/
Comprehensive State Environmental County U.S. Response, Retrieves Superfund data for specific facilities by using City Environmental https://www.epa.gov/e Databases Environment N/A Compensation, and any combination of facility name and geographic Zip code Protection Agency nviro/cerclis-search Liability Information location. Address (EPA) System (CERCLIS) Facility name Search
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Provides coastal data, tools, training, and information to meet the needs of the coastal management community. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA. Data sets range from economic data to satellite imagery, and the site contains visualization and predictive tools, National Oceanic as well as tools that make the data easier to find and use. and Atmospheric https://coast.noaa.gov/ Databases Environment N/A Digital Coast Varies Information is organized by focus area or topic, Administration digitalcoast/ including Climate Adaption, Coastal and Ocean (NOAA) Economy, Coastal Land Cover, Coastal Storms, Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure, Ocean Planning, and Water Quality. Some of the tools include the Sea Level Rise Viewer, Land Cover Atlas, Coastal Resilience Mapping Portal, and more.
Nation Helps users determine who is discharging, what National estuaries pollutants they are discharging and how much, and Watersheds http://cfpub.epa.gov/d Discharge Monitoring where they are discharging. Calculates pollutant U.S. EPA Region mr/ Report (DMR) loadings from permit and DMR data from U.S. Environmental Databases Environment N/A State Pollutant Loading Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Integrated Protection Agency County http://cfpub.epa.gov/d Tool Compliance Information System for the National (EPA) City mr/ez_search.cfm Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (ICIS-NPDES). Zip code Data are available from the year 2007 to the present. Watershed ID
Emissions & A comprehensive source of data on the environmental Nation U.S. Generation Resource characteristics of almost all electric power generated in Region Environmental https://www.epa.gov/e Databases Environment N/A Integrated Database the U.S., including emissions data and rates with electric State Protection Agency nergy/egrid (eGRID) generation data for U.S. power plants. Facility name (EPA)
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A one-stop shop for multiple U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) databases, including: the Hazardous Waste Report Biennial Report (BR), Brownfields/Cleanups, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability EPA Region Information System (CERCLIS), Enforcement and Tribe Compliance History Online (ECHO), Facility Registry State System (FRS), Greenhouse Gas, Integrated Compliance U.S. County Information System (ICIS), Integrated Grants Environmental http://www3.epa.gov/e Databases Environment N/A Envirofacts City Management System (IGMS), Permit Compliance Protection Agency nviro/ Zip code System (PCS), Radiation Information Database (EPA) Address (RADINFO), RadNet, the Resource Conservation and Facility name Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo), the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), Substance Registry Services (SRS), Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and Ultraviolet (UV) Index. Also includes mapping functions of certain data.
Tribe Searches multiple environmental databases for facility State information, including toxic chemical releases, water U.S. County http://www.epa.gov/en Envirofacts discharge permit compliance, hazardous waste handling Environmental Databases Environment N/A City viro/facts/multisystem. Multisystem Search processes, Superfund status, and air emission estimates. Protection Agency Zip code html Search options include facility name, geography, facility (EPA) Address industrial classification, or pollutant. Facility Name EPA Region Tribe Identifies facilities, sites, or places subject to State U.S. https://www.epa.gov/e Facility Registry environmental regulations or of environmental interest. County Environmental Databases Environment N/A nviro/facility-registry- Service (FRS) Query Form allows users to retrieve selected facility data City Protection Agency service-frs from 17 national systems. Zip code (EPA) Address Facility name
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Allows users to retrieve selected data on the generation, State management, and minimization of hazardous waste from County U.S. Hazardous Waste the BR tables within Envirofacts for specific facilities of City Environmental http://www.epa.gov/en Databases Environment N/A Biennial Report (BR) interest. Provides detailed data on the generation of Zip code Protection Agency viro/br-search Search hazardous waste from large quantity generators and data Address (EPA) on waste management practices from treatment, storage, Facility name or ID and disposal facilities.
Provides free access to the National Climatic Data Nation National Oceanic Center's (NCDC) archive of global historical weather State and Atmospheric and climate data in addition to station history Climate Data Online County Administration http://www.ncdc.noaa. Databases Environment N/A information. These data include quality controlled daily, (CDO) City (NOAA) National gov/cdo-web/ monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of Zip code Climatic Data temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days, as Station name Center (NCDC) well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.
Provides data collected by over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies. Includes publicly available water U.S. Geological quality data from the USGS National Water Information Survey; U.S. System (NWIS), the EPA STOrage and RETrieval Nation Environmental (STORET) Data Warehouse, and the USDA ARS State Protection Agency Water Quality Portal http://waterqualitydata. Databases Environment N/A Sustaining The Earth’s Watersheds - Agricultural County (EPA); National (WQP) us/portal/ Research Database System (STEWARDS), as well as Hydrologic Unit Water Quality USGS aquatic bioassessment data collected using the Code (HUC) 8 Monitoring protocols of the National Water Quality Assessment Council (NAWQA) and National Rivers Streams Assessment (NWQMC) program (NRSA).
State Retrieves data on facilities that U.S. Environmental County U.S. http://www.epa.gov/en Radiation Information Protection Agency (EPA) regulates for radiation or Address Environmental Databases Environment N/A viro/facts/radinfo/searc (RADINFO) Search radioactivity. Search options include facility name, City Protection Agency h.html geographic location, and radiation regulation. Zip code (EPA) Facility name or ID
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Contains information from a national monitoring EPA Region U.S. http://iaspub.epa.gov/e network of more than 200 stations that regularly sample State Environmental Databases Environment N/A RADNET Search nviro/erams_query_v2. the nation's air, precipitation, drinking water, or Monitoring station Protection Agency simple_query pasteurized milk for a variety of radionuclides. City (EPA)
State Provides identification and location data for specific Resource County U.S. hazardous waste handlers, and information on treatment, http://www.epa.gov/en Conservation and Address Environmental Databases Environment N/A storage, and disposal facilities regarding permit/closure viro/facts/rcrainfo/sear Recovery Act (RCRA) City Protection Agency status, compliance with federal and state regulations, ch.html Info Search Zip code (EPA) and cleanup activities. Facility name or ID
Contains information about public water systems and State U.S. Safe Drinking Water http://www.epa.gov/en their violations of the U.S. Environmental Protection County Environmental Databases Environment N/A Information System viro/facts/sdwis/search. Agency's (EPA) drinking water regulations, as reported City Protection Agency (SDWIS) html to EPA by the states. Water system name (EPA)
Site name Alias/Alternative site name EPA ID Superfund Site ID The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Address U.S. repository of the water quality monitoring data collected City STORET Data Environmental http://www.epa.gov/sto Databases Environment N/A by water resource management groups (states, tribes, County Warehouse Protection Agency ret/dw_home.html watershed groups, industry, other federal agencies, State (EPA) volunteer groups and universities) across the country. Region Zip code Congressional district Federal Agency Indian Entity
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Central system for information about substances that are tracked or regulated by the U.S. Environmental http://iaspub.epa.gov/s Protection Agency (EPA) or other sources. Contains U.S. or_internet/registry/sub Substance Registry basic information about chemicals, biological Environmental Databases Environment N/A N/A streg/searchandretrieve Services (SRS) organisms, and other substances of interest. Identifies Protection Agency /substancesearch/searc which EPA data systems, environment statutes, or other (EPA) h.do sources have information about a substance and which terminology is used by that system or statute.
Site name Alias/Alternative site Contains general information on sites across the nation name and U.S. territories including location, contaminants, EPA ID and cleanup actions taken. Includes information on sites Superfund Site ID being assessed under the Superfund program, hazardous Address waste sites, and potential hazardous waste sites. U.S. City https://cumulis.epa.gov Superfund Site National Priorities List (NPL) sites (i.e., sites proposed Environmental Databases Environment N/A County /supercpad/CurSites/sr Information to the NPL, currently on the final NPL, or deleted from Protection Agency State chsites.cfm the final NPL) are displayed in a standardized site (EPA) Region progress profile format. Each profile includes Zip code information such as the current status of cleanup efforts, Congressional what cleanup milestones have been reached, and how district much liquid and solid-based media have been treated. Federal Agency Indian Entity (Tribe)
Estuary Large ecosystem State Watershed name U.S. Links to watershed-related environmental data, Stream Environmental http://cfpub.epa.gov/su Databases Environment N/A Surf Your Watershed assessment information, organizations, activities, and County Protection Agency rf/locate/index.cfm websites. City (EPA) Zip code 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)
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A computer-based repository for information about air EPA Region pollution in the United States. This information comes State U.S. Integrated Compliance from source reports by various stationary sources of air County Environmental https://www.epa.gov/e Databases Environment N/A Information System pollution, such as electric power plants, steel mills, City Protection Agency nviro/icis-air-search (ICIS)-Air Search factories, and universities, and provides information Zip code (EPA) about the air pollutants they produce. Facility name or ID
Provides information on companies which have been The Permit State issued permits to discharge waste water into rivers, U.S. Compliance System- County http://www.epa.gov/en including information on when a permit was issued and Environmental Databases Environment N/A Integrated Compliance City viro/facts/pcs- expires, how much the company is permitted to Protection Agency Information System Zip code icis/search.html discharge, and the actual monitoring data showing what (EPA) (PCS-ICIS) Facility name or ID the company has discharged.
Retrieves facility information and chemical reports, which tabulate air emissions, surface water discharges, EPA Region releases to land, underground injections, and transfers to Tribe U.S. off-site locations. Provides information from the Risk State Toxics Release Environmental https://www.epa.gov/e Databases Environment N/A Screening Environmental Indicator (RSEI) tool, which County Inventory (TRI) Search Protection Agency nviro/tri-search provides a quantitative, relative estimate of risk posed City (EPA) by the facility. Search options include facility name, Zip code geographic location, standard industrial classification, Facility name or ID and chemical names.
Generates reports based on facilities, chemicals, geographic areas, or industry type/North American Nation U.S. Industry Classification System (NAICS) code at the zip EPA Region http://iaspub.epa.gov/tr Environmental Databases Environment N/A TRI Explorer code, county, state, regional, and national level. It State iexplorer/tri_release.ch Protection Agency provides information for on- and off-site disposal or County emical (EPA) other releases, transfers off-site, and other waste Zip code management data.
Tribe Retrieves facility and chemical information for each State U.S. http://www.epa.gov/en chemical submitted on a Form R to EPA. Search options County Environmental Databases Environment N/A TRI Form R Search viro/facts/tri/form_r_se include reporting year, facility selection, and geography City Protection Agency arch.html search. Zip code (EPA) Facility name or ID
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A downloadable application that allows users to select, sort and filter Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data. With TRI.NET users can search by radius (My TRI EPA Region Neighborhood feature), drill down to retrieve additional State U.S. details about the search results, obtain trend County https://www.epa.gov/to Environmental Databases Environment N/A TRI.NET information, find EPA reports for the facilities in the City xics-release-inventory- Protection Agency search, apply other data layers relating to environmental Zip code tri-program/trinet (EPA) justice, chemical toxicity, and tribal and U.S.- Mexico Address border geographies to further analyze TRI data and map Facility name or ID facilities in results using Google Maps, Google Earth, or Virtual Earth.
EPA Region Retrieves selected data from the Toxic Substances State U.S. Toxics Substances http://www.epa.gov/en Control Act database using any combination of chemical County Environmental Databases Environment N/A Control Act (TSCA) viro/facts/tsca/tsca_sea name or Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number, City Protection Agency Search rch.html facility site name or registry ID, or geography. Zip code (EPA) Facility name or ID
Links to various data sets and reports for urban forest State U.S. Department data in the U.S. at the state, county, county subdivision, County of Agriculture http://www.nrs.fs.fed.u Databases Environment N/A Urban Forest Data and local community or place-levels. Users are County subdivision (USDA) Forest s/data/urban/ encouraged to explore states or communities of interest Local Service to see what data are available. Place
Global The National Nation Provides drought and climate-related data, maps, data Integrated Drought http://www.drought.go Databases Environment N/A U.S. Drought Portal Region viewers, forecasting, and various other tools. Information v/drought/ State System (NIDIS) Zip code U.S. Provides a daily forecast of the expected intensity of State Environmental http://www.epa.gov/en Databases Environment N/A UV Index Search ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Predicts the City Protection Agency viro/uv-index-search ultraviolet radiation levels on a 1-11+ scale. Zip code (EPA)
Page 55 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Varies: Unites water quality information previously available Nation Watershed only from several independent and unconnected State http://www.epa.gov/wa U.S. Assessment, Tracking databases. Available information includes but is not City terdata/waters- Environmental Databases Environment N/A & Environmental limited to: designated use(s) of a waterbody, water Address watershed-assessment- Protection Agency Results System quality monitoring results, assessments of water quality, Zip code tracking-environmental- (EPA) (WATERS) causes and sources of impaired waters, public beach Hydrologic unit code results-system closures, and locations of dischargers. (HUC) Watershed
Possible data sources may include: State, County, and City Department of A variety of data may be available for a number of Environmental topics, including water and air quality, environmental Quality; health indicators, greenhouse gas emissions, climate Department of change, and energy use. Available data will vary place to Environmental State State, County, and place. Health; County Databases Environment N/A Local Environmental Department of the N/A City Data Examples of these data sources include: Environment; Local • Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Office of Environmental Databases and Mapping Applications Environment & • MERGANSER (MERcury Geo-Spatial Assessments Sustainability; for the New England Region) Environmental Protection Department; Environmental Management Department
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Possible data Data may be available on parks, recreation, and wildlife. sources may Much of parks and recreation data comes in the form of include: State, County, and GIS mapping. The breadth and availability of this data State Local Parks, will vary place to place. County Databases Environment N/A State, County, and N/A Recreation, and City City Departments Wildlife Data An example includes: Local of Parks and • Oakland Parks and Recreation (OPR) Parks, Recreation; Parks Recreation Facilities, and Programming and Wildlife
The purpose of the 500 Cities project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic Centers for disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical Disease Control 500 Cities Project: preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the and Prevention Select cities https://www.cdc.gov/5 Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Local Data for Better United States. These small area estimates allow cities (CDC); Robert Census tract 00cities/ Health and local health departments to better understand the Wood Johnson burden and geographic distribution of health-related Foundation; CDC variables in their jurisdictions, and help them plan Foundation public health interventions.
Provides projected numbers of new cancer cases and deaths expected each year in order to estimate the contemporary cancer burden, because cancer incidence http://www.cancer.org/ Cancer Facts and and mortality data lag three to four years behind the Nation American Cancer Databases Health and Healthcare N/A research/cancerfactssta Statistics current year. The regularly updated Facts & Figures State Society tistics/index publications present the most current trends in cancer occurrence and survival, as well as information on symptoms, prevention, early detection, and treatment.
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Contains information on health facilities, health care professions, measures of resource scarcity, hospital U.S. Department utilization, health status, economic activity, health of Health and training programs, and socioeconomic and Human Services Nation Area Health Resources environmental characteristics. Provides current and (DHHS) Health Databases Health and Healthcare N/A State http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/ Files (AHRF) historic data for more than 6,000 variables for each of Resources and County the nation's counties. In addition, the basic file contains Services geographic codes and descriptors, which enable it to be Administration linked to many other files and to aggregate counties into (HRSA) various geographic groupings.
The nation's premier system of health-related telephone Nation surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents State regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic County Centers for Behavioral Risk Factor health conditions, and use of preventive services. City Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/brf Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Surveillance System BRFSS collects data in all 50 states, as well as the Metropolitan/ and Prevention ss/ (BRFSS) District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. BRFSS micropolitan (CDC) completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each statistical areas year, making it the largest continuously-conducted (MMSAs) health survey system in the world.
Uses BRFSS data to provide prevalence rates for Behavioral Risk Factor selected conditions and behaviors for select metropolitan Surveillance System and micropolitan statistical areas with 500 or more Select metropolitan/ Centers for Selected Metropolitan/ respondents. This localized health information can help http://www.cdc.gov/brf micropolitan Disease Control Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Micropolitan Area public health practitioners identify local emerging health ss/smart/smart_data.ht statistical areas and Prevention Risk Trends (BRFSS problems, plan and evaluate local responses, and m (MMSAs) (CDC) SMART): City and efficiently allocate resources to specific needs. Data are County Data only available for 2002 and after; additional years of data will be added as they become available.
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Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of public health documentation, data, and tools categorized CDC WONDER by topic, including environmental health, chronic Centers for (Wide-ranging Online conditions, communicable diseases, occupational health, Disease Control http://wonder.cdc.gov/ Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Data for Varies health practice and prevention, injury prevention, and Prevention WelcomeT.html Epidemiologic nationally notifiable conditions, and reference data, such (CDC) Research) as demographics, morbidity, and mortality. Users can query CDC datasets and access various CDC tools.
Surveillance indicators that enable public health Centers for professionals and policymakers to retrieve uniformly Chronic Disease State Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/cdi Databases Health and Healthcare N/A defined state and selected metropolitan-level data for Indicators Select metro areas and Prevention // chronic diseases and risk factors that have a substantial (CDC) impact on public health.
A web-based platform designed in response to the IRS requirement outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Built Institute for to assist hospitals and organizations seeking to better People, Place, and understand the health needs and assets of communities Possibility (IP3); County Community Health and to make measurable improvements in community Center for Applied http://assessment.com City Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Needs Assessment health and well-being. Allows users to identify Research and munitycommons.org/C Zip code (CHNA) vulnerable populations and health disparities in a Environmental HNA/ Census tract community at the Census tract and run an indicator Systems (CARES); report to assess the determinants of health and current Community health status of a community at the county or more local Initiatives (city or zip code) level.
Annual county rankings that measure vital health Robert Wood factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, Johnson smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the County Health Foundation; quality of air and water, income, and teen births in State http://www.countyhealt Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Rankings & University of nearly every county in America. The annual rankings County hrankings.org/ Roadmaps Wisconsin provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced Population Health by where we live, learn, work and play. Ranking data are Institute available for download or mapping by state.
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U.S. Department An interactive data tool that allows you to explore health http://healthypeople.go of Health and Databases Health and Healthcare N/A DATA2020 data and technical information related to the Healthy Nation v/2020/Data/default.as Human Services People 2020 objectives, from a large number of sources. px (DHHS)
Provides a spatial overview of food access indicators for Food Access Research low-income and other census tracts using different http://www.ers.usda.go U.S. Department Atlas measures of supermarket accessibility; provides food v/data-products/food- Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Census tract of Agriculture (formerly Food Desert access data for populations within census tracts; and access-research- (USDA Locator) pinpoints the location of food deserts (low‐income atlas.aspx communities that lack ready access to healthy food).
Provides a single, user-friendly, source for national, state, and community health indicators, links indicators U.S. Department Health Indicators with evidence-based interventions, and serves as the of Health and http://www.healthindic Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Varies Warehouse data hub for the HHS Community Health Data Initiative. Human Services ators.gov/ Indicators are categorized by topic, by geography and by (DHHS) initiative.
U.S. Department State Online portal that allows users to search for areas that of Health and http://hpsafind.hrsa.go Health Professional County have shortages of primary medical care, dental care, or Human Services v/ Shortage Areas Service area (metro, mental health providers by geography (a county or (DHHS); Health Databases Health and Healthcare N/A (HPSA) Find / Find nonmetro, frontier) service area, city, zip), demographic (low income Resources and http://datawarehouse.hr Shortage Areas by Street address population) or facility (comprehensive health center, Services sa.gov/tools/analyzers/ Address Facility federally qualified health center, or other public facility). Administration geo/ShortageArea.aspx HPSA ID (HRSA)
Nation U.S. Department HHS Region of Health and Health Resources and A publically-available enterprise repository for HRSA’s State Human Services Services data. Integrates HRSA data with external sources, such County (DHHS); Health http://datawarehouse.hr Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Administration as the U.S. Census Bureau, enabling users to gather Congressional Resources and sa.gov/ (HRSA) Data relevant and meaningful information about health care district Services Warehouse (HDW) programs and the populations they serve. Zip code Administration (HRSA)
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Provides access to data, documentation, and questionnaires for various national health surveys, such Centers for National Center of as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/nc Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Health Statistics National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Varies and Prevention hs/ (NCHS) (NHANES), provider surveys and historical surveys; (CDC) vital records; statistics by topic; data tools, analysis aids, and visualizations; and health publications.
Nation (1999- Provides access to data, documentation, and present) questionnaires from a program of studies designed to Region (prior to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and 1999) children in the United States through a combination of [Finer resolution Centers for National Health and interviews and physical examinations. The NHANES geographic data Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/nc Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Nutrition Examination interview includes demographic, socioeconomic, available, but only and Prevention hs/nhanes.htm Survey (NHANES) dietary, and health-related questions. The examination through purchase (CDC) component consists of medical, dental, and from the Research physiological measurements, as well as laboratory tests Data Center administered by highly trained medical personnel. (http://www.cdc.gov/ rdc/)]
Nation Provides access to data, documentation, and Census Region questionnaires on a broad range of health topics [Finer resolution collected through these personal household interviews. geographic data Centers for National Health For over 50 years, the U.S. Census Bureau has been the available, but only Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/nc Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Interview Survey data collection agent for the NHIS. Survey results have through purchase and Prevention hs/nhis.htm (NHIS) been instrumental in providing data to track health from the Research (CDC) status, health care access, and progress toward achieving Data Center national health objectives. (http://www.cdc.gov/ rdc/)]
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An interactive website that provides access to thirty- three behavioral risk and health indicators in four categories: risk factors, death rates, health burden, and Nation Centers for Sortable Stats preventative services. This site compiles data from Federal Region Disease Control http://wwwn.cdc.gov/s Databases Health and Healthcare N/A (Sortable Risk Factors various published CDC and federal sources into a Territory and Prevention ortablestats/ and Health Indicators) format that allows users to view, sort, and analyze data State (CDC) at state/territory, regional, and national levels. Demographic information, charts, and data map views are also available.
Provides data collected by local cancer registries on cancer occurrence (including the type, extent, and Nation Centers for National Program of location of the cancer), the type of initial treatment, and Census Region Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/ca Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Cancer Registries outcomes. Data from cancer registries can be used to State and Prevention ncer/npcr/ (NPCR) identify high-risk groups, increase screening in County (CDC) underserved areas, and investigate possible cancer causes.
A coordinated system of population-based cancer registries strategically located across the United States Surveillance, Nation that monitor cancer trends and provide timely, accurate, National Cancer Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Epidemiology, and State http://seer.cancer.gov/ and continuous data on cancer incidence, the extent of Institute End Results (SEER) disease at diagnosis, therapy, and patient survival. Select metro areas
Website that provides dynamic views of cancer statistics (data, maps, and graphs) to help guide and prioritize National Cancer cancer control activities at the national, state, and Nation Institute; Centers http://statecancerprofil Databases Health and Healthcare N/A State Cancer Profiles county levels. The website brings together data that are State for Disease es.cancer.gov/ collected from public health surveillance systems by County Control and using either their published reports or public use files. Prevention (CDC)
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Provides trends in lung disease and reports on lung disease mortality, prevalence, hospitalization, economic http://www.lung.org/ou costs, and risk factors based on analyses of raw data American Lung Trends in Lung r- from government surveys available through the National Nation Association Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Disease: Data and initiatives/research/mo Center for Health Statistics and other agencies. Trend State Epidemiology & Statistics nitoring-trends-in-lung- Reports are data-rich and intended for professional Statistics Unit disease/ audiences, as they provide more in-depth statistics than other lung disease reports.
United States Cancer Centers for Statistics: An Shows United States cancer incidence and mortality data Nation Disease Control https://nccd.cdc.gov/D Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Interactive Cancer from 1999–2013 in a dynamic format. State and Prevention CPC_INCA/ Atlas (InCA) (CDC)
An interactive database that provides data on fatal injury data, non-fatal injury data, and violent deaths, including Web-based Injury cost of injury/fatality and years of potential life lost Centers for Nation Statistics Query and (YPLL) reports. Users can view data and create reports, Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/inj Databases Health and Healthcare N/A State Reporting System charts, maps, and graphics based on intent of injury, and Prevention ury/WISQARS/ (WISQARS) cause of injury, body region of injury, type of injury, (CDC) geographic location, and demographics of injured person.
Monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults and measures the prevalence of Centers for Youth Risk Behavioral obesity and asthma and other priority health-related Nation http://www.cdc.gov/he Disease Control Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Surveillance System behavior among youth and young adults. Also includes a State althyyouth/data/yrbs/in and Prevention (YRBSS) national school-based survey conducted by CDC and Some cities/ districts dex.htm (CDC) state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.
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A variety of data may be available, including data on Possible data diseases and conditions, injuries and fatalities, state and sources may local health surveys, community health profiles, include: maternal and child health, sexual health, mental health, State, County, and healthcare facilities, health services, births, and deaths. City Departments Available data will vary place to place. of Public Health; State Health Inter- State, County, and Examples of local sources of data include: County views/Health Databases Health and Healthcare N/A Local Public Health N/A City Surveys; Data • California Health Interview Survey/State Health Local Department of Survey Health and Vital • Georgia Department of Public Health Online Statistics; Birth/ Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS) / Death Registries; Health and Vital Statistics Data Repository Community Health • Los Angeles County Health Survey/County or City Profiles; Health Health Survey Atlas • New York City Epi Data Briefs and Data Tables
Provides current information on a wide range of housing subjects, including size and composition of the nation's housing inventory, vacancies, fuel usage, physical condition of housing units, characteristics of occupants, equipment breakdowns, home improvements, mortgages http://www.census.gov/ American Housing and other housing costs, persons eligible for and Nation U.S. Census Databases Housing N/A programs- Survey (AHS) beneficiaries of assisted housing, home values, and Select metro areas Bureau surveys/ahs.html characteristics of recent movers. Also includes topical supplements on public transportation, emergency and disaster preparedness, community involvement, neighborhood characteristics, and doubled-up households
Gross rent estimates that include the shelter rent plus the U.S. Department cost of all tenant-paid utilities, except telephones, cable State of Housing and http://www.huduser.or Fair Market Rents or satellite television service, and internet service. Databases Housing N/A County Urban g/portal/datasets/fmr.ht (FMRs) FMRs are used to determine how much rent should be Select metro areas Development ml covered through Section 8 for individuals with low (HUD) income.
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U.S. Department Department of Provides access to a vast array of housing research, data, Varies by data set of Housing and Housing and Urban https://www.huduser.g Databases Housing N/A and policy analysis published by HUD’s Office of from local to Urban Development (HUD) ov/portal/home.html Policy Development and Research (PD&R). national Development USER (HUD)
Documents the gaps between wages and the price of Nation housing across the United States. Provides yearly data State National Low- on the Housing Wage- the hourly wage a full-time County Databases Housing N/A Out of Reach Income Housing http://nlihc.org/oor worker must earn to afford a modest and safe rental Metropolitan area Coalition home without spending more than 30% of income on Combined non- rent and utility costs. metro area
Produces tabular statistical summaries of counts of Nation U.S. Department households by tenure, income intervals, age of State of Housing and http://www.huduser.or Special Tabulations of householder, size of household, and housing conditions, Databases Housing N/A County Urban g/portal/datasets/specta Households for select geographic areas in the United States. Users Core based statistical Development bs.html can extract this data to conduct a longitudinal analysis area (CBSA) (HUD) of changes in a particular area.
Provides detailed data and reports on Section 8 and Section 515 federally-assisted housing. Section 8 data includes contracts expiring over the next five years and Subsidized Housing reports information about property location, housing National Housing http://www.nhtinc.org/ Databases Housing N/A State Data subsidy expiration date, physical inspection scores, Trust housing_data.php ownership, management, and mortgage terms (if the mortgage is HUD insured). Section 515 data includes state reports of properties with USDA Section 515 loans.
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Possible data A variety of data may be available, including data on sources may housing permits, home values, housing affordability, include: market rates, and more. Available data will vary place to State State, County, and State, County, and place. County Databases Housing N/A City Departments N/A Local Housing Data City of Public Housing, Examples of local sources of data include: Local Housing, or • Miami-Dade County Public Housing and Community Community Development Department Development
County-level data from oil and/or natural gas producing states—for onshore production in the lower 48 states only—are compiled on a state-by-state basis. Most states http://www.ers.usda.go U.S. Department County-Level Oil and have production statistics available by county, field, or v/data-products/county- of Agriculture Databases Labor and Workplace N/A Gas Production in the well, and these data were compiled at the county-level to County level-oil-and-gas- (USDA) Economic U.S. create a database of county-level production, annually production-in-the- Research Service for 2000 through 2011. Raw data for natural gas is for us.aspx gross withdrawals, and oil data almost always include natural gas liquids.
Maintains databases, tables, maps. and calculators on essential economic information, such as inflation and prices, employment and unemployment, pay and U.S. Bureau of U.S. Bureau of Labor Databases Labor and Workplace N/A benefits, spending and time use, productivity, workplace Varies Labor Statistics www.bls.gov Statistics (BLS) injuries, and employment projections. Data are (BLS) available at regional, state, county, and sometimes smaller geographic scales.
Region State Local Area Provides monthly estimates of employment, County U.S. Bureau of Databases Labor and Workplace N/A Unemployment unemployment, and labor force data for approximately Metropolitan Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/lau/ Statistics (LAUS) 7,500 areas. statistical area (BLS) (MSA) City and town
Nation Overview of BLS Provides U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) wage U.S. Bureau of Region http://www.bls.gov/bls/ Databases Labor and Workplace N/A Wage Data by Area data by geographic area, occupation, gender, and Labor Statistics State blswage.htm and Occupation industry. (BLS) Metropolitan area
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Possible data sources may include: Data may be available on state, county, and local labor State, County, and markets, employment, and unemployment. Available City Departments State State, County, and data will vary place to place. related to County Databases Labor and Workplace N/A Local Labor Market Employment, N/A City Data An example of state and local labor market data Economic Local includes: Development, Job • Oregon Labor Market Information System and Family Services, Labor, or similar departments
Nation Region An on-going nationwide survey that collects and Division produces yearly estimates on demographic, social, State American Community U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/ Databases Population N/A economic, and housing characteristics at state, county, County Survey (ACS) Bureau programs-surveys/acs/ and sometimes smaller levels (e.g., zip code tabulation City area) based on a random sample of the population. Metropolitan area Census tract Block group
Centers for Disease Control Provides addresses and webpage links to state and State and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/nc Databases Population N/A Vital Records territory departments providing vital statistics records, Territory (CDC) National hs/w2w/index.htm including birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Center for Health Statistics
State County City 2010 Population A quick tool to help you find demographic data down to Census-designated U.S. Census http://www.census.gov/ Databases Population N/A Finder the city and town-level. place Bureau popfinder/index.php American Indian and Alaska Native Areas Census tracts
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A data analysis and extraction tool to customize federal, Nation state, and local data to suit your requirements. Users can U.S. Census http://dataferrett.census Databases Population N/A DataFerret State develop an unlimited array of customized spreadsheets Bureau .gov/ Local and turn those spreadsheets into graphs and maps.
Possible data sources may Data may be available on vital statistics including birth include: and death records. Available data will vary place to State, County, and place. State State, County, and City Departments County Databases Population N/A Local Vital Records of of Public Health; N/A An example of state and local labor market data City Statistics Department of includes: Local Health and Vital • District of Columbia Department of Health, Vital Statistics; Records Division Birth/Death Registries
Contains transportation-related data and statistics on Bureau of Nation U.S. Department http://www.rita.dot.gov modes of transportation, vehicles, passengers, safety, Databases Transportation N/A Transportation State of Transportation /bts/data_and_statistics infrastructure, energy and the environment, freight, and Statistics Local (DOT) /index.html economics.
A comprehensive web-based database of crash DOT Federal modification factors (CMFs) and crash reduction factors Crash Modification Urban areas Highway http://www.cmfclearin Databases Transportation N/A (CRFs), frequently asked questions, star quality ratings, Factors Clearinghouse Rural areas Administration ghouse.org/ crash type, crash severity, area type, and the evidence (FHWA) article reference, as well as an extensive list of resources.
National Highway Fatality Analysis Offers data, charts, maps, and trends on traffic crashes, Nation http://www- Traffic Safety Databases Transportation N/A Reporting System traffic fatalities, and other traffic-related data back to State fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Mai Administration (FARS) 1994. County n/index.aspx (NHTSA)
Repository of data about the financial, operating, and Nation asset conditions of American transit systems. It contains Urbanized area Federal Transit National Transit information such as agency funding sources, inventories http://www.ntdprogram Databases Transportation N/A City Administration Database of vehicles and maintenance facilities, safety event .gov/ntdprogram/ State (FTA) reports, measures of transit service provided and NTD ID consumed, and data on transit employees.
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National Household U.S. Department Nation Travel Survey (NHTS) of Transportation A national inventory of daily travel that includes State [formerly Nationwide (DOT) Federal http://nhts.ornl.gov/ind Databases Transportation N/A information on the purpose and means of travel, travel Select metropolitan Personal Highway ex.shtml time, day and time of travel, and traveler demographics. areas Transportation Survey Administration (NPTS)] (FHWA)
Provides economic and demographic information for Transit region Center for Transit- Transit Oriented Databases Transportation N/A every existing and proposed fixed guideway transit Transit shed Oriented http://toddata.cnt.org/ Database (TOD) station in the U.S. Transit zone Development
Possible sources of Data may be available on traffic records and collisions data may include: with motor vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians. State State, County, and State, County, and Available data will vary place to place. County Local Sheriff Databases Transportation N/A Local Traffic N/A City Highway Patrol, Records/Crash Data An example of traffic record/crash data includes: Local Police Department, California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System Department of (SWITRS) Public Safety
Data may be available on transit ridership and routes, Possible data mode share, vehicle miles traveled, daily and annual sources may vehicle trips, multimodal facility amenities, commercial State include: transportation, and more. Available data will vary place Region Department of State, County, and to place. County Transportation & Databases Transportation N/A Local Transportation Metropolitan areas Engineering; N/A Data Examples of state and local transportation data include: City Transportation • Metro Transit Services Local Agency/Authority; • Oregon Department of Transportation (DOT) Transit Transportation Data Section Department/Autho • Transit Services Serving the Minneapolis/ St. Paul area rity
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U.S. Department Describes the major research findings on the health http://www.health.gov/ of Health and benefits of physical activity and provides guidelines on paguidelines/ Physical Activity Human Services Guidance the types and amounts of physical activity for children Guidelines Health and Healthcare Guidelines for N/A (DHHS) Office of Documents and adolescents, adults, older adults, adults with http://www.cdc.gov/ph Americans Disease Prevention disabilities, pregnant and postpartum women, and ysicalactivity/everyone and Health people with chronic medical conditions. /guidelines/index.html Promotion
https://www.epa.gov/ra U.S. Built Environment An informational guide that covers radon in the home don/citizens-guide- Guidance A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Guidelines Environment and contains info and guidance on detection and N/A radon-guide-protecting- Documents Radon Protection Agency Health and Healthcare mitigation. yourself-and-your- (EPA) family-radon
New York City Departments of Built Environment Provides a manual of strategies for creating healthier Design and Environment buildings, streets, and urban spaces, based on the latest Guidance Active Design City Construction, https://centerforactived Guidelines Health and Healthcare academic research and best practices in the field, and Documents Guidelines Local Health and Mental esign.org/guidelines/ Housing supplements for Community Groups, Safety, Affordable Hygiene, Transportation Housing, Shaping the Sidewalk Experience, and more. Transportation, and City Planning
Aging in Place, Stuck Without Options: Report on the mobility challenges older adults face Built Environment http://t4america.org/do Guidance Fixing the Mobility today. Report includes metropolitan rankings, Transportation for Guidelines Health and Healthcare N/A cs/SeniorsMobilityCris Documents Crisis Threatening implications for federal policy, case studies, and best America Transportation is.pdf the Baby Boom practices for improving accessibility. Generation
U.S. Guidance Environment Air Pollution and A short primer on air toxics and public exposure and Environmental http://epa.gov/ttn/atw/3 Guidelines N/A Documents Health and Healthcare Health Risk risk assessment. Protection Agency _90_022.html (EPA)
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A reference library for conducting air toxics analyses https://www.epa.gov/fe and modeling at the facility and community scale. U.S. ra/risk-assessment-and- Guidance Environment Air Toxics Risk Provides information on the fundamental principles of Local Environmental Guidelines modeling-air-toxics- Documents Health and Healthcare Assessment (ATRA) risk-based assessment for air toxics and how to apply Facility Protection Agency risk-assessment-and- those principles in different settings as well as strategies (EPA) modeling for reducing risk at the local level.
Brings together all of the U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Agency's (EPA) recent research relating to asbestos and Guidance Built Environment Environmental http://www.epa.gov/as Guidelines Asbestos provides a framework for identifying, evaluating, and N/A Documents Health and Healthcare Protection Agency bestos/ reducing risk to human health from asbestos exposure in (EPA) schools, buildings, Superfund sites, and more.
Compilation of strategies and tools to improve the land, buildings, neighborhoods and other areas that make up a city’s built environment. Also includes case studies http://www.community Built Environment highlighting communities that have used these strategies Center for Guidance Building American City progress.net/toolkit- Guidelines Environment and tools. Strategies and tools are identified for four Community Documents Cities Toolkit Local home-page-pages- Housing elements: Dealing with problem property owners, Progress 292.php Building stronger neighborhoods, Reusing vacant properties, and Taking control of and managing problem properties.
Provides evidence-supported recommendations for Built Environment enhancing health through changes in approaches to Environment https://centerforactived Guidance Building Healthy buildings and built environment projects. City Urban Land Guidelines Health and Healthcare esign.org/buildinghealt Documents Places Toolkit Recommendations are provided for physical activity, Local Institute Housing hyplacestoolkit healthy food/drinking water, and healthy Transportation environment/social well-being.
A computerized, guided process that informs users of http://www2.epa.gov/si Community the steps involved in local-scale cumulative risk U.S. Built Environment tes/production/files/20 Guidance Cumulative assessment (CRA), such as problem formulation, Environmental Guidelines Environment Local 15- Documents Assessment Tool conceptual model development, and the consideration of Protection Agency Health and Healthcare 09/documents/shc_201 (CCAT) multiple stressors; it is based strongly on EPA CRA (EPA) 5_ccat_poster.pdf recommendations.
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https://www.epa.gov/c Community-Based Offers information on how communities can protect ommunityhealth/comm Environmental U.S. Built Environment ecosystems by setting goals, assessing conditions, and unity-based- Guidance Protection: A Environmental Guidelines Environment developing and evaluating strategies. Includes case Local environmental- Documents Resource Book For Protection Agency Health and Healthcare study examples, tools, and resources to learn more about protection-resource- Protecting Ecosystems (EPA) certain topics. book-protecting- and Communities ecosystems-and
This document quantifies risk factor exposure and effects for 26 major health risks and identifies population exposure distributions, evidence for Comparative World Health http://www.who.int/he Guidance causality, and estimates of disease-specific hazards Guidelines Health and Healthcare Quantification of N/A Organization althinfo/global_burden Documents associated with each level of exposure. Health risks Health Risks (WHO) _disease/cra/en/ range from anemia and high blood pressure to physical inactivity and smoking, and even air pollution and global warming.
Crime Prevention A multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal http://www.ncpc.org.sg Guidance Built Environment Through National Crime Guidelines behavior through environmental design implementations N/A /images/media/CPTED Documents Crime Environmental Design Prevention Council in the built environment. .pdf (CPTED) Guidebook
Under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for setting https://www.epa.gov/cr standards, also known as national ambient air quality Criteria Air U.S. iteria-air-pollutants standards (NAAQS), for pollutants which are considered Guidance Environment Pollutants/National Environmental Guidelines harmful to people and the environment and ensuring that N/A Documents Health and Healthcare Ambient Air Quality Protection Agency https://www.epa.gov/cr these air quality standards are met, or attained through Standards (EPA) iteria-air- national standards and strategies to control pollutant pollutants/naaqs-table emissions from automobiles, factories, and other sources.
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A primer on how to view the complex issue of gentrification, including nationally-recognized indicators to measure whether gentrification is Dealing with Brookings http://www.brookings.e occurring. Shows the wide range of ways that Neighborhood Institution Center du/~/media/research/fil Guidance Built Environment gentrification pressures play out in three very different Guidelines Change: A Primer on N/A on Urban and es/reports/2001/4/metr Documents Population cities and one multi-city region, and suggests policies Gentrification and Metropolitan opolitanpolicy/gentrific and strategies that Policy Choices Policy; PolicyLink ation.pdf can be used to advance equitable development by optimizing the benefits of neighborhood change and minimizing or eliminating the downsides.
http://www.health.gov/ U.S. Department dietaryguidelines/dga2 of Agriculture Provides 23 key recommendations for the general 010/DietaryGuidelines (USDA); Guidance Dietary Guidelines for population and 6 additional key recommendations for 2010.pdf Guidelines Health and Healthcare N/A U.S. Department Documents Americans 2010 specific population groups, such as pregnant women, of Health and meant to help people choose an overall healthy diet. http://www.health.gov/ Human Services dietaryguidelines/2010. (DHHS) asp
Warehouse of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Built Environment EPA Exposure (EPA) methods, models, tools, and databases covering https://www.epa.gov/re Guidance Environmental Guidelines Environment Methods, Models, air, climate change, ecosystems, health, homeland Varies search/methods-models- Documents Protection Agency Health and Healthcare Tools, and Databases security, human health risk assessment, land and waste tools-and-databases (EPA) management, safer chemicals, and water.
Provides links to various risk assessment resources U.S. Built Environment (guidance, models, databases) used by U.S. Guidance EPA Risk Assessment Environmental http://www.epa.gov/ris Guidelines Environment Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists to Varies Documents Guidance and Tools Protection Agency k/guidance.htm Health and Healthcare assess risks, including human health risks and ecological (EPA) risks.
Built Environment http://www.policylink. Economics Equitable Online toolkit that includes 27 tools to reverse patterns org/equity- Guidance Guidelines Environment Development Toolkit of segregation and disinvestment, prevent displacement, Local PolicyLink tools/equitable- Documents Health and Healthcare (EDTK) and promote equitable revitalization. development- Housing toolkit/about-toolkit
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Designed to help communities develop performance measures that can fully integrate pedestrian and bicycle planning in ongoing performance management https://www.fhwa.dot.g activities. It highlights a broad range of ways that Built Environment Guidebook for Region ov/environment/bicycle walking and bicycling investments, activity, and impacts Federal Highways Guidance Environment Developing Pedestrian State _pedestrian/publication Guidelines can be measured and documents how these measures Administration Documents Health and Healthcare & Bicycle County s/performance_measur relate to goals identified in a community’s planning (FHWA) Transportation Performance Measures Local es_guidebook/pm_guid process. It discusses how the measures can be tracked ebook.pdf and what data are required, while also identifying examples of communities that are currently using the respective measures in their planning process.
Provides policy options that can help rural communities strengthen their economies while preserving rural https://www.epa.gov/s Essential Smart character. These policies can help rural communities Agriculture U.S. martgrowth/essential- Growth Fixes for ensure that their development is fiscally sound, Guidance Built Environment Environmental smart-growth-fixes- Guidelines Rural Planning, environmentally responsible, and socially equitable. Local Documents Economics Protection Agency communities#Rural_Pl Zoning, and Topics include fiscal impact analysis, commercial Environment (EPA) anning_Zoning_and_D Development Codes development, wastewater infrastructure, rural roads, evelopment_Codes efficient development patterns, and protection of agricultural and natural lands.
Provides eleven "essential fixes" to the most common barriers local governments face in implementing smart growth strategies. Topics include mixing land uses, https://www.epa.gov/s Essential Smart fixing parking requirements, modernizing street U.S. martgrowth/essential- Built Environment Growth Fixes for Guidance standards, managing stormwater, and adopting smart Environmental smart-growth-fixes- Guidelines Economics Urban and Suburban Local Documents annexation policies. Each essential fix describes a Protection Agency communities#Urban_a Environment Zoning and problem or barrier and the actions the community could (EPA) nd_Suburban_Zoning_ Development Codes take to overcome it. These actions are organized as Codes modest adjustments, major modifications, or wholesale changes.
Evaluating Exposures U.S. Guidance Environment to Toxic Air A short primer on air toxics and public exposure and Environmental http://epa.gov/ttn/atw/3 Guidelines N/A Documents Health and Healthcare Pollutants: A Citizen's risk assessment. Protection Agency _90_023.html Guide (EPA)
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Provides information on various physiological and behavioral factors commonly used in assessing exposure to environmental chemicals. Each chapter presents recommended values for the exposure factors covered in the chapter, as well as a discussion of the underlying U.S. http://ofmpub.epa.gov/ Built Environment Guidance Exposure Factors data used in developing the recommendations. Factors Environmental eims/eimscomm.getfile Guidelines Environment N/A Documents Handbook include: drinking water consumption, soil ingestion, Protection Agency ?p_download_id=5229 Health and Healthcare inhalation rates, dermal factors including skin area and (EPA) 96 soil adherence factors, consumption of fruits and vegetables, fish, meats, dairy products, homegrown foods, human milk intake, human activity factors, consumer product use, and building characteristics.
Federal Agency Federal https://fican1.files.wor Built Environment Provides an overview of noise evaluation methodologies Guidance Review of Selected Interagency dpress.com/2015/10/re Guidelines Environment and metrics, health effects, and airport noise policy N/A Documents Airport Noise Analysis Committee on ports_noise_analysis.p Health and Healthcare recommendations. Issues Noise df
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http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/ Final Ecosystem U.S. Provides a foundation for measuring, quantifying, si_public_record_Repo Guidance Goods and Services Environmental Guidelines Environment mapping, modeling, and valuing ecosystem services or N/A rt.cfm?dirEntryId=257 Documents (FEGS) Classification Protection Agency the benefits supplied by nature. 922&CFID=13972040 System (EPA) 5&CFTOKEN=593035 49&jsessionid=cc303f 3c529fb2342dd56e52d 7c80353e2a2
Consolidates scientific knowledge on the health impacts Built Environment of community noise and provides noise management World Health Guidance Guidelines for http://whqlibdoc.who.i Guidelines Environment guidance to environmental health authorities and Local Organization Documents Community Noise nt/hq/1999/a68672.pdf Health and Healthcare professionals trying to protect people from the harmful (WHO) effects of noise in non-industrial environments.
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Provides guidelines for understanding and using the HHRS. HHRS is an American adaptation of the British U.S. Department Housing Health and Safety Rating System, developed to http://portal.hud.gov/h Built Environment Healthy Home Rating of Housing and Guidance allow assessment of all the main potential housing- udportal/documents/hu Guidelines Health and Healthcare System (HRRS) – N/A Urban Documents related health and safety hazards. By focusing on ddoc?id=operating_gui Housing Operating Guidance Development potential hazards, it places the emphasis directly on the dance_hhrs_v1.pdf (HUD) risk to health or safety, rather than cosmetic or physical conditions alone.
Reflects a wide variety of approaches to Health in All http://www.phi.org/upl Policies. Geared toward state and local government Public Health oads/files/Health_in_A Health in All Policies: Guidance leaders who want to use intersectoral collaboration to Institute; American ll_Policies- Guidelines Health and Healthcare A Guide for State and N/A Documents promote healthy environments. Provides a broad range Public Health A_Guide_for_State_an Local Governments of perspectives and examples of ways to support Association d_Local_Governments. intersectoral collaboration for health. pdf
Provides guidance on better integrating health protections into home energy efficiency programs, http://web.mit.edu/cron including guidance on improving or maintaining indoor /project/EESP- Built Environment Healthy Indoor U.S. air quality and indoor environments during home energy Cambridge/Articles/He Guidance Environment Environment Protocols Environmental Guidelines upgrades, retrofits, and remodels. This first-of-its-kind N/A alth/epa_healthy%20en Documents Health and Healthcare for Home Energy Protection Agency guidance document will provide the home energy ergy%20retrofit_protoc Housing Upgrades (EPA) industry the ability to identify, manage, and reduce ols%20Final%2011- health risks during home energy upgrades, retrofits, or 11.pdf remodels.
Website providing information on pollutants and sources of indoor air pollution in homes, schools, and larger buildings, as well as tools for improving IAQ in Built Environment schools via a comprehensive IAQ management program. U.S. Education Guidance Indoor Air Quality Publications and resources provide guides, fact sheets, Environmental https://www.epa.gov/in Guidelines Environment N/A Documents (IAQ) models, studies, and tools for a variety of IAQ-related Protection Agency door-air-quality-iaq Health and Healthcare topics including mold, secondhand smoke, carbon (EPA) Housing monoxide, IAQ building assessment, IAQ health impacts, air duct and ventilation safety studies and guides, and more.
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A web-based self-evaluation tool designed to help transportation agencies and planning organizations Infrastructure integrate sustainability into their programs (policies, Built Environment Federal Highways Guidance Voluntary Evaluation processes, procedures and practices) and projects. The https://www.sustainabl Guidelines Environment Varies Administration Documents Sustainability Tool tool is made up of voluntary sustainability best practices ehighways.org/ Transportation (FHWA) (INVEST) that cover the full lifecycle of transportation services (e.g., system planning, project planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance).
http://designforhealth.n Integrating Health into Guidance Built Environment Guidance on integrating health into community design et/integrating-health- Guidelines Comprehensive N/A Design For Health Documents Health and Healthcare and the links between urban planning and health. into-comprehensive- Planning planning/
An update and refinement of the research behind the 2002 "Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact" study, which has been widely used by researchers to examine the Built Environment costs and benefits of sprawling development. Provides a Environment http://www.smartgrowt Guidance Measuring Sprawl Sprawl Index score for 221 metropolitan statistical areas County Smart Growth Guidelines Health and Healthcare hamerica.org/measurin Documents 2014 (MSAs) and 994 metropolitan counties based on four Metropolitan areas America Housing g-sprawl primary factors - residential and employment density; Transportation neighborhood mix of homes, jobs and services; strength of activity centers and downtowns; and accessibility of the street network
Measuring the The extent to which an energy assistance program U.S. Department Outcomes of Low- improves the energy self-sufficiency of a low-income of Health and http://www.acf.hhs.gov Built Environment Income Energy household can be captured through the use of the Home Human Services Guidance /sites/default/files/ocs/ Guidelines Economics Assistance Programs Energy Insecurity Scale. The Scale can be used to N/A (DHHS) Documents measuring_outcome_0. Housing Through a Home quantitatively measure outcomes for home energy Administration for pdf Energy Insecurity assistance programs using a set of thresholds and Children & Scale indicators that measure energy self-sufficiency. Families
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https://nepis.epa.gov/E xe/ZyNET.exe/P1005H TF.txt?ZyActionD=Zy Document&Client=EP A&Index=2006%20Th U.S. ru%202010&Docs=& Naturally Occurring Guidance Environment Nine page factsheet on approaches for reducing Environmental Query=&Time=&EndT Guidelines Asbestos: Approaches N/A Documents Health and Healthcare exposures to naturally occurring asbestos (NOA). Protection Agency ime=&SearchMethod= for Reducing Exposure (EPA) 1&TocRestrict=n&Toc =&TocEntry=&QField =&QFieldYear=&QFie ldMonth=&QFieldDay =&UseQField=&IntQF ieldOp=0&ExtQFiel
Covers the requirements of the Noise Control Act of 1972 and the impacts of noise on public health, and Information on Levels identifies noise levels necessary to protect public health of Environmental and welfare against hearing loss, annoyance and activity U.S. Built Environment Noise Requisite to http://www.nonoise.org Guidance interference. Environmental Guidelines Environment Protect Public Health N/A /library/levels74/levels Documents Note: In 1981, the primary responsibility for noise Protection Agency Health and Healthcare and Welfare With an 74.htm control policy and noise regulation was transferred from (EPA) Adequate Margin of EPA to state and local governments, but the federal Safety noise control acts still are in effect today (but are essentially unfunded).
National Park https://www.nps.gov/p Service (NPS); Built Environment Provides an outline and quick guide for incorporating ublic_health/hp/hphp/p Guidance Parks, Trails, and U.S. Centers for Guidelines Environment public health considerations in the development of a N/A ress/Parks_Trails_and_ Documents Health Workbook Disease Control Health and Healthcare park or trail. Health_Workbook_508 and Prevention _Accessible_PDF.pdf (CDC)
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A series of publications providing an overview of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) https://www.epa.gov/h regulations affecting specific industry sectors. Presents U.S. wgenerators/resource- Guidance Environment the lifecycle of a typical waste for each industry and Environmental conservation-and- Guidelines RCRA in Focus (RIF) N/A Documents Business and Industry focuses on recycling and pollution prevention options. Protection Agency recovery-act-rcra-focus- Each issue contains a hazardous waste table of RCRA (EPA) hazardous-waste- requirements for small businesses and answers generator-guidance frequently asked questions.
U.S. http://nepis.epa.gov/Ex Built Environment Four page brochure on how communities can identify Guidance Reducing Air Toxics Environmental e/ZyPDF.cgi/2000HG Guidelines Environment and reduce air toxics, what EPA is doing to reduce air Local Documents In Your Community Protection Agency X1.PDF?Dockey=2000 Health and Healthcare toxics, and examples of community-based projects. (EPA) HGX1.PDF
Provides research that has been conducted to assess near- source impacts for single source and complex multi- https://www.epa.gov/ai Research on Near source environments and better understand factors U.S. Built Environment r-research/research- Guidance Roadway and Other influencing adverse health effects attributed to near- Environmental Guidelines Environment N/A near-roadway-and- Documents Near Source Air source impacts. Includes models and tools developed to Protection Agency Health and Healthcare other-near-source-air- Pollution quantify near-source emissions and exposures and (EPA) pollution mitigation strategies to reduce emissions, exposures and health effects.
U.S. Built Environment Risk Assessment for Guidance A short primer on air toxics and public exposure and Environmental http://epa.gov/ttn/atw/3 Guidelines Environment Toxic Air Pollutants: N/A Documents risk assessment. Protection Agency _90_024.html Health and Healthcare A Citizen's Guide (EPA)
Guidance on activities that are conducted during U.S. https://www.epa.gov/ri Built Environment Risk Assessment Guidance Superfund risk assessments, including human health Local Environmental sk/risk-assessment- Guidelines Environment Guidance for Documents evaluation activities and development of remediation Site-specific Protection Agency guidance-superfund- Health and Healthcare Superfund (RAGS) goals. (EPA) rags-part
EPA's voluntary school siting guidelines can help local U.S. http://www.epa.gov/sc Guidance Built Environment School Siting school districts, education agencies, and community Local Environmental Guidelines hools/school-siting- Documents Environment Guidelines members evaluate environmental factors to make the Site-specific Protection Agency guidelines best possible school siting decisions. (EPA)
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A comprehensive evaluation of traffic congestion costs and congestion reduction strategies. Describes various factors that affect congestion cost estimates and the Built Environment evaluation of potential congestion reduction strategies, Guidance Environment Smart Congestion Victoria Transport http://www.vtpi.org/co Guidelines including analysis scope, Varies Documents Health and Healthcare Relief Policy Institute ng_relief.pdf baseline speeds, travel time valuation, accident and Transportation emission impact analysis, induced travel analysis, and consideration of co-benefits. And provides best practice recommendations by experts.
Provides smart growth strategies and tools to help communities grow in ways that expand economic Built Environment opportunity while protecting human health and the U.S. Environment https://www.epa.gov/s Guidance environment. Includes a smart growth assessment for Environmental Guidelines Health and Healthcare Smart Growth Tools N/A martgrowth/smart- Documents rural communities, a web-based tool for communities to Protection Agency Housing growth-tools determine how well they are performing on a variety of (EPA) Transportation sustainability indicators, smart growth guidelines for sustainable design and development, and more.
A set of practical tools to help communities grow Built Environment smarter. These tools provide a step-by-step guide for http://www.smartgrowt Environment Smart Growth how to examine the policies, codes, zoning regulations hamerica.org/leadershi Guidance Smart Growth Guidelines Health and Healthcare Implementation and development requirements that can impact how a Local p- Documents America Housing Toolkit community grows. The tools are intended to be institute/implementatio Transportation templates and can be customized for a community’s n-tools needs.
Built Environment A website with various smart growth scorecard U.S. Environment assessment tools meant to help view development and https://www.epa.gov/s Guidance Smart Growth Environmental Guidelines Health and Healthcare projects through a smart growth lens. The scorecards fall Varies martgrowth/smart- Documents Scorecards Protection Agency Housing under three different categories: municipal-level, project- growth-scorecards (EPA) Transportation specific, and component (bikeability and walkability).
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A toolkit designed to help local governments and communities identify and remove barriers to sustainable design and green building in their permitting processes. https://www.epa.gov/s Sustainable Design The toolkit addresses local codes and ordinances that U.S. Built Environment martgrowth/sustainable- Guidance and Green Building affect the design, construction, renovation, and Environmental Guidelines Environment Local design-and-green- Documents Toolkit for Local operation and maintenance of a building and its Protection Agency Health and Healthcare building-toolkit-local- Governments immediate site. The toolkit contains an assessment tool, (EPA) governments a resource guide, and a guide to developing an action plan for implementing changes to the permitting process.
Presents and explains step-by-step, the process that a https://www.epa.gov/si community can follow to organize, identify and U.S. tes/production/files/20 The Community Air Guidance inventory local sources of air pollutants, analyze the Environmental 15- Guidelines Environment Screening How To Local Documents potential health risks to the community, and set Protection Agency 09/documents/commun Manual priorities and develop a plan for improving outdoor air (EPA) ity_air_screening_how quality. _to_manual.pdf
The Value of Green Quantifies the economic value of green infrastructure’s Center for Infrastructure: A Built Environment benefits to help inform decision-makers and planners Neighborhood http://www.cnt.org/rep Guidance Guide to Recognizing Guidelines Economics about the multiple benefits green infrastructure provides N/A Technology ository/gi-values- Documents Its Economic, Social Environment to communities and guide communities in valuing (CNT); American guide.pdf and Environmental potential green infrastructure investments Rivers Benefits
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protects public health and the environment by regulating air pollution from motor vehicles, engines, and the fuels used to operate them, and by encouraging travel choices https://www3.epa.gov/ Transportation and Air that minimize emissions. These "mobile sources" U.S. otaq/ Quality/ Emission include cars and light trucks, heavy trucks and buses, Guidance Environment Environmental Guidelines Standards for On- nonroad engines, equipment, and vehicles. The N/A Documents Health and Healthcare Protection Agency https://www.epa.gov/e Road and Nonroad Emission Standards Reference Guide provides federal (EPA) mission-standards- Vehicles and Engines emission standards for on-road and nonroad vehicles reference-guide and engines, and related fuel sulfur standards. Each table includes the standards, useful life, warranty period, and the availability of averaging, banking, and trading (ABT).
Transportation Research Board / National Built Environment Summarizes the current status of crash reduction factors http://onlinepubs.trb.or Guidance National Cooperative Cooperative Guidelines Health and Healthcare for a variety of treatments and provides a summary of N/A g/onlinepubs/nchrp/nc Documents Highway Research Highway Research Transportation the best available crash reduction factors. hrp_rrd_299.pdf Program Crash Program Reduction Factors
U.S. Built Environment Identifies the air toxics facing urban areas, their sources, Guidance Environmental https://www.epa.gov/ur Guidelines Environment Urban Air Toxics and the associated health effects, as well as ways to Urban areas Documents Protection Agency ban-air-toxics Health and Healthcare effectively reduce the risk of these toxics. (EPA)
A guide to help local governments identify opportunities to better protect water quality by removing barriers; revising and creating codes, ordinances, and incentives; and ensuring codes and ordinances across multiple U.S. City https://www.epa.gov/s Guidance Built Environment Water Quality municipal departments work together to support a green Environmental Guidelines Local martgrowth/water- Documents Environment Scorecard infrastructure approach to storm water management. Protection Agency Site-specific quality-scorecard Intended for municipalities, neighborhoods, and sites in (EPA) rural, suburban, and urban settings, including those that have combined sewers, municipal separate storm sewers, or limited or no existing stormwater infrastructure.
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WHO Air Quality Guidelines Presents evidence on the health effects of four common http://whqlibdoc.who.i for Particulate Matter air pollutants - PM, O3, NO2 and SO2 -and their World Health Guidance Environment nt/hq/2006/WHO_SDE Guidelines (PM), Ozone (O3), relative importance with regard to current and future All Organization Documents Health and Healthcare _PHE_OEH_06.02_en Nitrogen Dioxide health effects in each of the WHO regions, and (WHO) g.pdf (NO2), and Sulfur implications for air quality guidelines. Dioxide (SO2)
Inventory of evidence, statistics, initiatives, strategies, World Health Guidance Environment http://www.who.int/top Guidelines WHO Health Topics and guidelines for various health and development Varies Organization Documents Health and Healthcare ics/en/ topics. (WHO)
http://www.heart.org/H EARTORG/GettingHe Dietary The American Heart Association (AHA) has dietary althy/Dietary- Guidance American Heart Benchmarks Health and Healthcare Recommendations for recommendations for infants, children and adolescents N/A Recommendations-for- Documents Association (AHA) Healthy Children to promote cardiovascular health. Healthy- Children_UCM_30388 6_Article.jsp
Gives information on carbon pollution from power plants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulatory actions - Clean Power Plan (for U.S. existing power plants) and Carbon Pollution Standards Guidance Nation Environmental https://www.epa.gov/cl Benchmarks Environment Clean Power Plan (for new, modified, and reconstructed power plants) - to Documents State Protection Agency eanpowerplan reduce carbon pollution. Also includes information on (EPA) the impacts of carbon pollution on the environment and health and a toolbox for states to aid in developing state plans to cut carbon emissions from power plants.
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http://www.heart.org/H EARTORG/GettingHe althy/NutritionCenter/ American Heart Provides recommendations for fighting cardiovascular HealthyEating/The- Guidance Association (AHA) disease through reduced caloric intake, a diet of American Heart Benchmarks Health and Healthcare N/A American-Heart- Documents Diet and Lifestyle nutritious foods, limiting certain food and beverages, not Association (AHA) Associations-Diet-and- Recommendations smoking tobacco, and avoiding secondhand smoke. Lifestyle- Recommendations_UC M_305855_Article.jsp
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http://www.heart.org/H EARTORG/GettingHe American Heart althy/HealthierKids/Ac Association (AHA) Provides physical activity recommendations for children tivitiesforKids/The- Guidance American Heart Benchmarks Health and Healthcare Recommendations for to avoid the risk factor of physical inactivity when they N/A AHAs- Documents Association (AHA) Physical Activity in become adults. Recommendations-for- Children Physical-Activity-in- Children_UCM_30405 3_Article.jsp
A report presenting data on children's environmental U.S. America's Children Guidance Environment health. ACE brings together information from a variety Environmental http://www.epa.gov/ac Benchmarks and the Environment N/A Documents Health and Healthcare of sources to provide national indicators and related Protection Agency e/index.html (ACE) information on the environment and children's health. (EPA)
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The report provides analysis and reporting of recent trends and ongoing variations in health disparities and Crime inequalities for selected social and health indicators. The Demographics CDC Health Centers for report highlights health disparities and inequalities http://www.cdc.gov/mi Guidance Environment Disparities and Disease Control Benchmarks across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, Nation norityhealth/CHDIRep Documents Health and Healthcare Inequalities Report and Prevention environmental exposures, social determinants, and ort.html Labor and Workplace (CHDIR) (CDC) health-care access by sex, race and ethnicity, income, Transportation education, disability status and other social characteristics.
The ROE shows how the condition of the environment U.S. and human health in the United States is changing over Guidance Environment EPA's Report on the Environmental http://cfpub.epa.gov/ro Benchmarks time. Presents the best available indicators of national Nation Documents Health and Healthcare Environment (ROE) Protection Agency e/ trends in air, water, land, human exposure and health, (EPA) and ecological condition.
Under the Clean Air Act, federal noise regulations have U.S. https://www.epa.gov/cl Noise Pollution and Guidance Environment also been set, which cover standards for transportation Environmental ean-air-act- Benchmarks Federal Noise N/A Documents Health and Healthcare equipment, motor carriers, low-noise-emission products, Protection Agency overview/title-iv-noise- Regulations and construction equipment. (EPA) pollution
Provides non-enforceable water-quality benchmarks that can be used to (1) supplement U.S. Environmental Health-Based Protection Agency (EPA) Maximum Contaminant Screening Levels Levels (MCLs) and Human Health Benchmarks for http://cida.usgs.gov/hb Guidance Environment U.S. Geological Benchmarks (HBSLs) for Pesticides (HHBPs), (2) determine whether N/A sl/apex/f?p=hbsl:home: Documents Health and Healthcare Survey (USGS) Evaluating Water- contaminants found in surface-water or groundwater 3526777841372::::: Quality Data sources of drinking water may indicate a potential human-health concern, and (3) help prioritize monitoring efforts.
U.S. Department https://www.healthype Guidance A set of science-based, ten-year objectives for of Health and Benchmarks Health and Healthcare Healthy People 2020 N/A ople.gov/2020/About- Documents improving the health of all Americans. Human Services Healthy-People (DHHS)
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http://www.cdc.gov/he Centers for Calculates the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the althyweight/assessing/ Guidance Disease Control Benchmarks Health and Healthcare Adult BMI Calculator corresponding BMI weight status category for N/A bmi/adult_bmi/english Documents and Prevention individuals 20 years old and older. _bmi_calculator/bmi_c (CDC) alculator.html
Calculates the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Centers for BMI Percentile Guidance corresponding BMI-for-age percentile on a CDC BMI- Disease Control http://nccd.cdc.gov/dn Benchmarks Health and Healthcare Calculator for Child N/A Documents for-age growth chart. Use for children and teens, age 2 - and Prevention pabmi/Calculator.aspx and Teen 19 years. (CDC)
Provides technical information on what green infrastructure is and does, how the use of green infrastructure saves money, the costs and benefits of using green infrastructure to mitigate the need for Center for Guidance Built Environment Green Values® different types of built water infrastructure, and a http://greenvalues.cnt.o Benchmarks Varies Neighborhood Documents Environment Stormwater Toolbox comprehensive bibliography. Also includes Green rg/ Technology Values® Calculators for comparing the performance, costs, and benefits of green infrastructure, or low impact development (LID), to conventional stormwater practices.
Gives a rough “ballpark” estimate of a person's or U.S. https://www3.epa.gov/ Guidance Environment Household Carbon household's carbon footprint in three areas - home Environmental Benchmarks Household carbon-footprint- Documents Transportation Footprint Calculator energy, transportation, and waste - based on their Protection Agency calculator/ location, habits, and personal choices. (EPA)
Consists of a number of questions designed to provide those with Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) management responsibilities the information Highway Safety necessary to assess their programs, policies, and Federal Highways http://safety.fhwa.dot.g Guidance Health and Healthcare Benchmarks Improvement Program procedures against many of the recommended HSIP State Administration ov/hsip/resources/fhwa Documents Transportation Self Assessment Tool practices in use today. Can be used to benchmark and (FHWA) sa11043/ track progress towards improving the effectiveness of the HSIP over the long term and generate strategies to improve HSIP-related practices.
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A green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. To receive LEED certification, building projects satisfy prerequisites and earn points to achieve different levels of certification. Prerequisites and credits differ for each Leadership in Energy rating system, and teams choose the best fit for their & Environmental project. LEED certifications are available for buildings Built Environment Guidance Design (LEED) Green (i.e., new construction and complete renovations, U.S. Green http://www.usgbc.org/l Benchmarks Environment N/A Documents Certification Program - interior design and construction projects, existing Building Council eed Housing Buildings and building operation and maintenance, and individual Neighborhoods homes) and neighborhood development or redevelopment projects. Neighborhoods are rated according to four categories for certification: smart location and linkage; neighborhood pattern and design; green infrastructure and buildings; and innovation and design process.
Helps communities identify, validate, and support implementation of best practices to improve sustainable community conditions. STAR integrates economic, environmental, and social aspects of sustainability and Built Environment STAR Community http://www.starcommu Guidance provides communities with a menu-based system to STAR Benchmarks Environment Rating System Local nities.org/rating- Documents customize their approach based on local conditions and Communities Housing (STAR) system/ priorities. The rating system is organized by goals, objectives, and evaluation measures and is intended to align with local government processes and standard practice.
http://nepis.epa.gov/Ex Decision Analysis for e/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey= An open-source, web-based decision analysis framework U.S. Built Environment Sustainable P100DSGE.txt that can help evaluate complex environmental issues and Environmental Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Economics Environment, Local decisions by characterizing environmental, social, and Protection Agency Environment Economy and Society http://nepis.epa.gov/Ex economic trade-offs to the decision alternatives. (EPA) (DASEES) e/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey= P100ECOI.txt
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Assists state transportation agencies with analyzing greenhouse gas reduction scenarios and alternatives for The Energy and use in the transportation planning process, developing Federal Highways Environment http://www.planning.d Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Emissions Reduction state climate action plans, scenario planning exercises, State Administration Transportation ot.gov/FHWA_tool/ Policy Analysis Tool and measuring the reduction potential of various (FHWA) transportation strategies to meet state greenhouse gas reduction goals and targets.
http://epaschools- stage.icfwebservices.co Helps school districts evaluate and manage their school m/guidelinestools/healt facilities for key environmental, safety and health issues. Healthy School U.S. hySEAT/index.html Built Environment It can be customized and used by district-level staff to Environments Environmental Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Environment conduct completely voluntary self-assessments of their Site-specific Assessment Tool Protection Agency http://epaschools- Health and Healthcare school (and other) facilities and to track and manage (HealthySEATv2) (EPA) stage.icfwebservices.co information on environmental conditions school by m/guidelinestools/healt school. hySEAT/downloads1.h tml
Identifies and evaluates cost and environmental aspects associated with specific waste management strategies or existing systems. It can also be used to simulate existing solid waste management practices and conduct scenario analyses of new strategies based on cost and U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Built Environment environmental objectives, such as those designed to County Environmental Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Decision Support Tool https://mswdst.rti.org/ Environment meet recycling and waste diversion goals, quantify City Protection Agency; (MSW DST) potential environmental benefits associated with RTI International recycling, identify strategies for optimizing energy recovery from MSW, and evaluate options for reducing greenhouse gases, air pollutants, and environmental releases to water-bodies or ecosystems.
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An open-source software program that estimates the number and economic value of air pollution-related Nation Benefits Mapping and deaths and illnesses. Incorporates a database that U.S. Economics State Analysis Program includes many of the concentration-response Environmental https://www.epa.gov/b Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Environment County (BenMAP) - relationships, population files, and health and economic Protection Agency enmap Health and Healthcare City Community Edition data needed to quantify health impacts resulting from (EPA) Local changes in air quality - specifically, ground-level ozone and fine particles.
A crash typing software product intended to assist state and local pedestrian/bicycle coordinators, planners, and State Built Environment Pedestrian and Bicycle Pedestrian and engineers with improving walking and bicycling safety County http://www.pedbikeinf Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Health and Healthcare Crash Analysis Tool Bicycle through the development and analysis of a database City o.org/pbcat_us/ Transportation (PBCAT) Information Center containing details associated with crashes between Local motor vehicles and pedestrians or bicyclists.
An open-source, web-based, decision support system for U.S. Sustainable developing and evaluating future reuse scenarios for Environmental Built Environment Management potentially contaminated land. SMARTe contains Protection Agency http://www.smarte.org/ Analysis Tools Decision Analysis Environment Approaches and Site-specific resources and analysis tools for all aspects of the (EPA); U.S.- smarte/home/index.xml Health and Healthcare Revitalization Tools - revitalization process including planning, German Bilateral electronic (SMARTe) environmental, economic, and social concerns. Working Group
http://www.dot.gov/off Guidance on Provides guidance on valuing reduction of risk for ice- Economics U.S. Department Treatment of the fatalities and injuries by transportation regulations or policy/transportation- Analysis Tools Economic Analysis Health and Healthcare N/A of Transportation Economic Value of a investments. These are values used in Department of policy/guidance- Transportation (DOT) Statistical Life Transportation analyses. treatment-economic- value-statistical-life
http://www.heatwalkin Helps in conducting an economic assessment of the Economics Health Economic World Health gcycling.org/ health benefits of walking or cycling by estimating the Analysis Tools Economic Analysis Health and Healthcare Assessment Tool N/A Organization value of reduced mortality that results from specified Transportation (HEAT) (WHO) http://www.euro.who.i amounts of walking or cycling. nt/HEAT
Page 89 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category http://agecon.okstate.e A technique for identifying the strengths and du/retailtrade/ weaknesses of an economy’s retail sector. Quantifies Business and Industry Retail Trade/Gap Oklahoma State Analysis Tools Economic Analysis retail surplus and leakage (i.e., the extent to which the Local Economics Analysis University http://agecon.okstate.e corridor is capturing the spending potential of du/faculty/publications households residing in the area). /3282.pdf
Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry This software performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo Crime simulation to show users many possible outcomes in an Demographics Excel spreadsheet model—and tells users how likely Economics they are to occur. It mathematically and objectively http://www.palisade.co Analysis Tools Economic Analysis Education @Risk Varies Palisade computes and tracks many different possible future m/risk/ Environment scenarios, then tells the probabilities and risks Health and Healthcare associated with each different one. Housing $ Labor and Workplace Population Transportation
Techniques, estimates, and implications for quantifying Transportation Cost Victoria Transport http://www.vtpi.org/tca Analysis Tools Economic Analysis Transportation the full costs and benefits of different transportation Varies and Benefit Analysis Policy Institute / modes. U.S. An air dispersion model that takes into account both http://www3.epa.gov/tt Environmental Models Scientific Models Environment AERMOD meteorological and terrain aspects to model dispersion N/A n/scram/dispersion_pre Protection Agency of air pollutants. frec.htm#aermod (EPA)
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Utley, et al. 2003. A computer model that assesses the health impacts of ARMADA – A proposed development projects due to changes in the Computer Model environment. The model takes into account of the Impact of Age Related Morbidity http://link.springer.co Environment environmental factors, population demographics and Environmental Models Scientific Models And Death Analysis Local m/article/10.1023%2F Health and Healthcare dynamics, and the timescale of the project to estimate Factors on Health. (ARMADA) A%3A1024411417521 age-related patterns of morbidity and mortality within Health Care the local population. ARMADA was specifically Management developed for use in HIA. Science , 6(3), 137- 146.
Agriculture Built Environment Business and Industry Crime Demographics Builds models with up to 101 variables and other user Economics objects, reviews and runs models of any size, and allows Lumina Decision http://www.lumina.co Models Scientific Models Education Analytica Free 101 N/A users to change input values and generate results as Systems m/products/free101/ Environment graphs and tables. Health and Healthcare Housing Labor and Workplace Population Transportation
Bioretention, An inventory of models on the function and impacts of North Carolina Permeable Pavement, stormwater management, such as swales, bioretention State University Built Environment https://stormwater.bae. Models Scientific Models Green Roof, and areas, green roofs, stormwater wetlands, permeable Varies Biological and Environment ncsu.edu/resources/ Rainwater Harvesting pavements, water harvesting systems, and other Agricultural Models innovative treatment practices. Engineering Downloads Tab
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Pollutant dispersion models used for predicting carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) dispersion U.S. from traffic. CAL3QHCR is a more refined version that https://www3.epa.gov/t Environment CALINE3/CAL3QHC/ Environmental Models Scientific Models requires local meteorological data. Inputs for the models Local tn/scram/dispersion_pr Transportation CAL3QHCR Protection Agency include roadway geometry, receptor locations, efrec.htm#caline3 (EPA) meteorological conditions, vehicular emission rates, and others.
An air dispersion modeling package that combines the CALINE4, CAL3QHC, and CAL3QHCR air dispersion http://www.weblakes.c models into one seamless integrated graphical interface. Lakes Environment om/products/calroads/? Models Scientific Models CALRoads View Used for predicting air pollution concentrations of Local Environmental Transportation AspxAutoDetectCooki carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and Software eSupport=1 particulate matter (PM) from traffic. $
U.S. A system of software applications used widely to plan Environmental https://www.epa.gov/ca for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is a tool to Protection Agency meo/what-cameo- Built Environment CAMEO software assist front-line chemical emergency planners and (EPA); National software-suite Models Scientific Models Local Environment suite responders. The CAMEO system integrates a chemical Oceanic and database and a method to manage the data, an air Atmospheric http://www.epa.gov/ca dispersion model, and a mapping capability. Administration meo/cameo-software (NOAA)
Estimates workplace exposures and environmental releases for chemicals manufactured and used in http://www.epa.gov/tsc Chemical Screening industrial/commercial settings. Estimates occupational U.S. a-screening- Environment Tool for Exposures inhalation and dermal exposure to a chemical during Environmental tools/chemsteer- Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare and Environmental industrial and commercial manufacturing, processing, Site-specific Protection Agency chemical-screening- Labor and Workplace Releases and use operations; and releases of a chemical to air, (EPA) tool-exposures-and- (ChemSTEER) water, and land that are associated with industrial and environmental-releases commercial manufacturing, processing, and use of the chemical.
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Estimates the health and economic benefits of air quality policies. Allows users to estimate and map the air quality, human health, and related economic benefits https://www.epa.gov/st (excluding energy cost savings) of clean energy policies Nation U.S. Economics atelocalclimate/co- Co-Benefits Risk or programs; and approximate the outcomes of clean State Environmental Models Scientific Models Environment benefits-risk- Assessment (COBRA) energy policies that change emissions of particulate County Protection Agency Health and Healthcare assessment-cobra- matter 2.5 (PM2.5), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen Local (EPA) screening-model oxides (NOX), ammonia (NH3), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the county, state, regional, or national level.
Epi Gear Estimates the epidemiology of a disease. It exploits the International; http://www.epigear.co Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare DisMod II fact that disease incidence, prevalence, remission, case N/A World Health m/index_files/dismod_ fatality, and mortality are not independent variables. Organization ii.html (WHO) Quantifies the health impact of policies influencing Dynamic Model for health determinants. It is adaptable to the health Health Impact http://www.dynamo- Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare determinants and outcomes relevant for the policy in N/A DYNAMO-HIA Assessment hia.eu/ question and has been applied throughout the European (DYNAMO-HIA) Union.
Provides access to a large number of models, methods, https://www.epa.gov/re Scientific Models U.S. Built Environment Environmental Tools tools, and databases that can be used to promote search/environmental- Methods Environmental Models Environment to Support Sustainable sustainability. Users can search by the type of tool or Varies tools-support- Frameworks Protection Agency Economic Decision Making one of the three pillars of sustainability - environment, sustainable-decision- Indices (EPA) economy, or society. making
An Excel add-in with several functions, including http://www.epigear.co calculating population risk exposure and converting Epi Gear Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare EpigearXL N/A m/Products/EpigearXL odds ratios to relative risks and back (given the disease International /epigearxl.html risk and the risk factor prevalence).
A bootstrap add-in for Microsoft Excel for Windows. It allows to do uncertainty analysis (aka ‘risk analysis’, http://www.epigear.co Economic ‘Monte Carlo simulation’, ‘probabilistic sensitivity Epi Gear Models Scientific Models Ersatz N/A m/index_files/ersatz.ht Health and Healthcare analysis’, ‘bootstrapping’), microsimulation, and International ml probabilistic bias quantification in Excel. $
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Provides screening-level estimates of the concentrations of chemicals released to air, surface water, landfills, and http://www.epa.gov/tsc U.S. Exposure and Fate consumer products. Estimates provided are potential a-screening-tools/e-fast- Environment Environmental Models Scientific Models Assessment Screening inhalation, dermal and ingestion dose rates resulting N/A exposure-and-fate- Health and Healthcare Protection Agency Tool (E-FAST) from these releases. Modeled estimates of concentrations assessment-screening- (EPA) and doses are designed to reasonably overestimate tool-version-2014 exposures for use in screening level assessment.
An interactive software application for formulating U.S. http://www2.epa.gov/e Exposure Analysis aquatic ecosystem models and rapidly evaluating the Environment Environmental xposure-assessment- Models Scientific Models Modeling System fate, transport, and exposure concentrations of synthetic Aquatic ecosystems Health and Healthcare Protection Agency models/exams-version- (EXAMS) organic chemicals including pesticides, industrial (EPA) index materials, and leachates from disposal sites.
A Windows-based model for predicting and analyzing U.S. Department highway traffic noise. Inputs for the model include data of Transportation Built Environment FHWA Traffic Noise http://www.fhwa.dot.g on the roadway, receivers, barriers, building rows, (DOT) Federal Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare Model (TNM) Local ov/environment/noise/t terrain lines, ground zones, tree zones, contour zones, Highway Transportation (formerly STAMINA) raffic_noise_model/ traffic etc. Replaces the previous STAMINA Administration 2.0/OPTIMA Model. (FHWA)
An interactive online tool designed to provide communities with fast and easy access to information about EPA's publicly available Green Infrastructure Scientific Models U.S. Built Environment tools and resources. Find green infrastructure tools and Methods Green Infrastructure Environmental https://cfpub.epa.gov/g Models Environment resources from a range of categories including general N/A Frameworks Wizards (GIWiz) Protection Agency iwiz/ Economic information, community specific projects, and ideas for Indices (EPA) designing and assessing projects or choose from a variety of categories and attributes to identify resources that meet specific needs and interests.
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Generates multiple summary measures to evaluate and monitor health disparities (HD). Supports the use of a range of health disparities measures, allowing Health Disparities researchers to select and apply different measures to National Cancer http://seer.cancer.gov/h Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare N/A Calculator (HD*Calc) their data. Created as an extension of SEER*Stat, it Institute dcalc/index.html allows the user to import SEER data or other population- based health data and calculate any of eleven disparity measurements.
San Francisco http://www.pewtrusts.o Built Environment Used to predict excess traffic-attributable particulate Department of Health Impact rg/~/media/assets/2011 Environment matter 2.5 (PM2.5) mortality, changes in noise‐related Public Health Models Scientific Models Predictive Function Local /09/01/sfroad_pricing_ Health and Healthcare annoyance, and noise‐attributable cases of myocardial (SFDPH); Road Equations fullreport.pdf?la=en Transportation infarction. Pricing HIA, Appendices B & C Appendices B & C
A model integrated into geographic information systems (GIS) that calculates gravity-based probabilities of consumer behavior among competing retail shopping https://www.arcgis.co Economics locations. Can be used to delineate probability-based m/home/item.html?id= Models Scientific Models Business and Industry Huff Model All Esri markets for store locations, model the economic impact f4769668fc3f486a992 Labor and Workplace of adding stores, and forecast sales potential. 955ce55caca18
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Designed to predict risks associated with chemicals emitted into the ambient air (i.e., in the vicinity of an https://www.epa.gov/fe emitting facility but beyond the facility's property U.S. ra/risk-assessment-and- boundary) via the inhalation pathway of exposure. Environment Human Exposure Environmental modeling-human- Models Scientific Models Provides ambient air concentrations, as surrogates for Facility Health and Healthcare Model (HEM-3) Protection Agency exposure-model-hem lifetime exposure, for use with unit risk estimates and (EPA) inhalation reference concentrations to produce estimates of cancer risk and noncancer hazard, respectively, for the air toxics modeled.
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Estimates inhalation exposure for selected population groups to various air toxics. Through a series of Nation https://www.epa.gov/fe Human Exposure calculation routines, makes use of ambient air Region U.S. ra/human-exposure- Environment Modeling - Hazardous concentration data, indoor/outdoor microenvironment State Environmental Models Scientific Models modeling-hazardous- Health and Healthcare Air Pollutant Exposure concentration relationship data, population data, and County Protection Agency air-pollutant-exposure- Model (HAPEM) human activity pattern data to estimate an expected City (EPA) model-hapem range of inhalation exposure concentrations for groups Local of individuals.
Designed to help communities estimate and compare the likely impervious surface impacts of proposed housing and commercial development scenarios. Well suited for sketch planning applications when more detailed and site-specific stormwater runoff analysis is not possible, U.S. http://www.epa.gov/sm Built Environment Impervious Surface but can also be integrated with other tools for more Environmental Models Scientific Models Census block group artgrowth/impervious- Environment Growth Model (ISGM) detailed studies of stormwater and water quality Protection Agency surface-growth-model impacts. The ISGM spreadsheet tool is pre-loaded with (EPA) baseline data for all Census block groups, so communities can use ISGM without the need for additional baseline data or calibration for the local area of analysis.
Provides integrated health impact assessment of transport through changes in physical activity, road Built Environment Integrated Transport traffic injury risk, and exposure to fine particulate matter Centre for Diet and http://www.cedar.iph.c Environment and Health Impact (PM2.5) air pollution. Can either be used as a stand- Nation Models Scientific Models Activity Research am.ac.uk/research/mod Health and Healthcare Modeling (ITHIM) alone model or linked to other transport and health Urban (CEDAR) elling/ithim/ Transportation Tool models for development of scenarios, for estimation of changes in exposures, and for modelling health outcomes.
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A web-based suite of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) modeling programs and many of the http://www.epa.gov/tsc Internet Geographical environmental data needed to run them. Includes models a-screening- U.S. Exposure Modeling and data for ambient air, surface water, soil, and ground tools/igemscsm- Environment Environmental Models Scientific Models System/Chemical water, and makes the models much easier to use than Local internet-geographical- Transportation Protection Agency Safety Mapper their stand-alone counterparts. Includes a new GIS exposure-modeling- (EPA) (IGEMS/CSM) module- Chemical Safety Mapper (CSM)- for displaying systemchemical-safety- environmental modeling results and chemical mapper monitoring informations on various GIS layers.
A state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite that provides urban and rural forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. Helps communities of all sizes to strengthen their forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of trees and forests and the USDA Forest https://www.itreetools. Models Scientific Models Environment i-Tree Varies ecosystem services and benefit values of community Service org/ trees and forests at multiple scales. Articulates the significance of trees and forests in terms of pollution mitigation, storm water run-off reduction, carbon sequestration and storage and more.
Estimates the economic impacts of constructing and operating power plants, fuel production facilities, and National Business and Industry Jobs and Economic other projects, usually at the state level. Estimates http://www.nrel.gov/an State Renewable Energy Models Scientific Models Economics Development Impact include the number of jobs and economic impacts to an alysis/jedi/about_jedi.h Local Laboratory Labor and Workplace (JEDI) Models area that can reasonably be supported by a power plant, tml (NREL) fuel production facility, or other project. Results are intended to be estimates, not precise predictions.
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Ryan and LeMasters. 2007. A Review of Land- use Regression Utilizes monitored levels of the pollutant of interest as Land-use Regression Models for Built Environment the dependent variable and variables such as traffic, Models for Characterizing http://www.tandfonline Environment topography, and other geographic variables as the Nation Models Scientific Models Characterizing Intraurban Air .com/doi/full/10.1080/ Health and Healthcare independent variables in a multivariate regression model Local Intraurban Air Pollution 08958370701495998 Transportation to characterize air pollution exposure and health effects Pollution Exposure Exposure. that vary spatially. Inhalation Toxicology , 19(Sup1), 127- 133.
Landis, B. W. LDS estimates the latent and potential demand for 1996. Bicycle http://citeseerx.ist.psu. Built Environment bicycle and pedestrian travel. This GIS-based analysis is system Latent Demand Score edu/viewdoc/download Models Scientific Models Environment a probabilistic gravity model that determines the Local performance (LDS) ?doi=10.1.1.233.1981 Transportation probability that someone will walk or bike to identified measures. ITE &rep=rep1&type=pdf trip attractors from various distances. Journal , 66(2), 18- 26.
Site analysis techniques in GIS using location allocation http://desktop.arcgis.co to determine potential locations for retail that optimize m/en/desktop/latest/too Models Scientific Models Built Environment Location Allocation proximity and the optimal allocation of demand to the Local Esri ls/network-analyst- facilities. toolbox/solve-location- $ allocation.htm
Log-Linear Risk http://www.who.int/pu World Health Environment Model of Population Forecasts the mortality effects of exposure to PM for a blications/cra/chapters/ Models Scientific Models City Organization Health and Healthcare Exposure - Particulate population. volume2/1353- (WHO) Matter (PM) 1434.pdf
Estimates changes in recharge, runoff, and nonpoint Long-Term https://engineering.pur source pollution resulting from past or proposed State Built Environment Hydrological Impact due.edu/mapserve/LTH Models Scientific Models development and land use changes. It gives long-term County Purdue University Environment Analysis (L-THIA) IA7/documentation/LT average annual runoff for a land use configuration, Local Models HIAFactSheet2.htm based on long-term climate data for that area.
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A screening tool that evaluates the benefits of LID https://engineering.pur L-THIA Low Impact practices. Estimates the average annual runoff and State Built Environment due.edu/mapserve/LTH Models Scientific Models Development (LID) pollutant loads for land use configurations based on County Purdue University Environment IA7/lthianew/lidIntro.p Spreadsheet more than 30 years of daily precipitation data, soils, and Local hp land use data for an area.
Microsoft Excel add-in that supports all major meta- http://www.epigear.co analysis methods, plus, uniquely, the inverse variance Epi Gear Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare MetaXL N/A m/index_files/metaxl.h heterogeneity and quality effects models. Output is in International tml table and graphical formats.
Estimates the trip-generation impacts of a new mixed- U.S. Built Environment https://www.epa.gov/s Mixed-Use Trip use development and predicts trips by walking and Environmental Models Scientific Models Environment Local martgrowth/mixed-use- Generation Model transit and estimates the daily vehicle miles of travel Protection Agency Transportation trip-generation-model associated with the development. (EPA)
Estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, Nation U.S. MOVES (Motor greenhouse gases, and air toxics. MOVES 2014 http://www.epa.gov/ota Environment County Environmental Models Scientific Models Vehicle Emission incorporated the NONROAD Model (nonroad engines, q/models/moves/index. Transportation Local Protection Agency Simulator) equipment, and vehicles) and replaces MOBILE Model htm Project (EPA) (on-road vehicles) as the EPA's official model for estimating emissions from cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
Estimates average and peak indoor air concentrations of chemicals released from products or materials in houses, apartments, townhouses, or other residences. The data https://www.epa.gov/ts Built Environment Multi-Chamber libraries contained in MCCEM are limited to residential U.S. ca-screening- Environment Concentration and settings; however, the model can be used to assess other Environmental tools/approaches- Models Scientific Models Site-specific Health and Healthcare Exposure Model indoor environments (e.g. schools, offices) if the user Protection Agency estimate-consumer- Housing (MCCEM) can supply the necessary inputs. Estimates inhalation (EPA) exposure-under- exposures to these chemicals, calculated as single day tsca#chamber doses, chronic average daily doses, or lifetime average daily doses.
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A desktop application that estimates the annual amount U.S. of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site https://www.epa.gov/w National Stormwater Environmental Models Scientific Models Environment anywhere in the United States (including Puerto Rico). Site-specific ater-research/national- Calculator Protection Agency Estimates are based on local soil conditions, land cover, stormwater-calculator (EPA) and historic rainfall records.
Miedema, H. M., & Oudshoorn, C. G. 2001. Annoyance from Transportation https://www.scienceop Noise: en.com/document_file/ Built Environment Relationships with 5591ebf7-4f42-43fa- Formulas are used to define populations a little annoyed, Environment Noise Annoyance Exposure Metrics a619- Models Scientific Models annoyed, or highly annoyed by aircraft, road traffic, and Local Health and Healthcare Relationship DNL and DENL a70f2637439b/PubMe railway noise. Transportation and Their dCentral/5591ebf7- Confidence 4f42-43fa-a619- Intervals. a70f2637439b.pdf Environmental Health Perspectives, 109 ( 4), 409.
Models used to assess the risk of a pesticide to human https://www.epa.gov/p health or the environment (i.e., aquatic, terrestrial, esticide-science-and- atmospheric, and health effects models) that consider U.S. Models and Databases assessing-pesticide- Environment the toxicity of the pesticide as well as the amount of Environmental Models Scientific Models Used in Pesticide Risk Varies risks/models-and- Health and Healthcare pesticide to which a person or the environment may be Protection Agency Assessment databases-used- exposed. Also includes database resources about (EPA) pesticide-risk- environmental effects, environmental fate, health effects, assessment and regulatory information.
http://www.epigear.co A multiple risk factor, multiple disease dynamic Epi Gear Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare Prevent Plus N/A m/index_files/prevent. population model that allows the user to evaluate the International html benefits of risk factor interventions.
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Used for evaluating the performance of bioretention facilities, rain gardens, and infiltration basins. Simulates the movement of water, records the soil moisture and volume of water in each water budget term (infiltration, University of http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/ Built Environment recharge, overflow, underdrain flow, evapotranspiration, Local Models Scientific Models Recarga Model Wisconsin- Stormwater/standards/r Environment etc.) at each time step and summarizes the results. Can Site-specific Madison ecarga.html be used to size facilities to meet specific performance objectives, such as reducing runoff volume or increasing recharge, and for analyzing the potential impacts of varying the design parameters.
https://www.tno.nl/en/f ocus- A quantitative risk assessment (QRA) software that can area/urbanisation/envir Built Environment RISKCURVES - quantify risks and easily identify the highest risk onment- Environment Software for activities. It can be used for mitigating these high risk Models Scientific Models Varies TNO sustainability/public- Health and Healthcare Quantitative Risk activities, urban planning and complying to criteria safety/riskcurves- Transportation Assessment required by legislation. Also produces a "societal risk software-for- map", a geographical presentation of societal risk. quantitative-risk- assessment/
A scenario planning software tool to evaluate smart Transportation growth policies and determine their impact on travel Built Environment Research Board of http://www.trb.org/mai Models Scientific Models SmartGAP demand. Synthesizes households and firms in a region Region Transportation the National n/blurbs/168842.aspx and determines their travel demand characteristics based Academies on their built environment and transportation policies.
U.S. Department A small watershed to river basin-scale model that of Agriculture simulates the quality and quantity of surface and ground (USDA) Agriculture Soil and Water water and predicts the environmental impact of land use, River basin Agricultural Models Scientific Models Built Environment Assessment Tool land management practices, and climate change. Widely http://swat.tamu.edu/ Watershed Research Service Environment (SWAT) used in assessing soil erosion prevention and control, (USDA-ARS); non-point source pollution control, and regional Texas A&M management in watersheds. AgriLife Research
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A noise modeling software that can predict, analyze, and graphically display traffic noise, occupational noise Environment indoors and outdoors, general industrial noise, and http://www.soundplan. Built Environment SoundPLAN Noise aircraft noise. A standards-based program that can SoundPLAN Models Scientific Models Local eu/deutsch/produkte/so Health and Healthcare Model provide road noise calculations in accordance with GmbH undplan-software/ Transportation various international standards, including the FHWA’s STAMINA/Traffic Noise Model. $
http://www.healthpolic yinitiative.com/index.c fm?id=software&get=S U.S. Agency for pectrum A system of models that support analysis, planning, and Spectrum Policy International Models Scientific Models Health and Healthcare advocacy for health programs. Used to project future N/A Modeling System Development http://www.healthpolic needs and examine the effects of policy options. (USAID) yinitiative.com/Publica tions/Groups/group_16 /16_SpectrumManualE .pdf
http://www.epa.gov/ch Probabilistic models that estimate chemical exposures emical- Stochastic Human U.S. people face in everyday activities through four exposure research/stochastic- Environment Exposure and Dose Environmental Models Scientific Models pathways: inhalation, skin contact, and dietary and non- N/A human-exposure-and- Health and Healthcare Simulation (SHEDS) Protection Agency dietary ingestion. Able to generate predictions of dose-simulation-sheds- Models (EPA) aggregate and cumulative exposures over time. estimate-human- exposure
A dynamic hydrology-hydraulic-water quality simulation model used for planning, analysis and design related to stormwater runoff, combined and sanitary U.S. https://www.epa.gov/w Storm Water Built Environment sewers, and other drainage systems. Simulates runoff Environmental ater-research/storm- Models Scientific Models Management Model Urban areas Environment quantity and quality from subcatchments within Protection Agency water-management- (SWMM) primarily urban areas. Can also model the hydrologic (EPA) model-swmm performance of specific types of low impact development (LID)/green infrastructure controls.
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TRIM includes three individual modules - an Environmental Fate, Transport, and Ecological Exposure Total Risk Integrated module (TRIM.FaTE); a (human) Exposure-Event U.S. https://www.epa.gov/fe Methodology (TRIM) module (TRIM.Expo); and a Risk Characterization Environment Environmental ra/total-risk-integrated- Models Scientific Models [TRIM.FaTE, module (TRIM.Risk). TRIM.Risk integrates the N/A Health and Healthcare Protection Agency methodology-trim- TRIM.Expo, exposure received from TRIM.FaTE (for ecological (EPA) general TRIM.Risk] receptors) or TRIM.Expo (for human receptors) with information on dose-response to develop risk characterizations.
Elvik R. 2009. The non-linearity of risk and the Used to estimate future vehicle‐cyclist injury collisions promotion of http://www.sciencedire Vehicle-Cyclist Injury Health and Healthcare and percent change in vehicle-cyclist collisions. Model environment-ally ct.com/science/article/ Models Scientific Models Collision Predictive Local Transportation inputs are the number of motor vehicles and the number sustainable pii/S00014575090008 Model Equation of cyclists in the different study scenarios. transport. 76 Accident Analysis and Prevention 41(4):849‐855.
Provides access to tools from all across the U.S. federal National Oceanic Scientific Models Environment U.S. Climate government that help explore climate threats and and Atmospheric https://toolkit.climate.g Models Methods Varies Health and Healthcare Resilience Toolkit vulnerabilities and help guide users in building climate Administration ov/#tools Indices resilience. (NOAA)
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Models specific to a certain region, state, or smaller locale may be available to cover a wide range of topics, Possible data including the environment, health, and traffic and sources may transportation. Model availability will vary place to include: place. State, County, and City Departments Examples of location-specific models include: of Transportation; • California Air Resources Board Urban Emissions Department of Built Environment State State, County, and Model (URBEMIS) Public Health; Scientific Models Environment County Models Local Location- • Puget Sound Clear Air Agency Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Department of the N/A Methods Health and Healthcare City Specific Models Emissions Modeling Environment Transportation Local • San Francisco Department of Public Health Vehicle‐Pedestrian Injury Collision Model Models may also • CALINE4 (CAlifornia LINE Source Dispersion be available from Model) local/ private • EMission FACtor Model (EMFAC)/State Emissions consulting firms Inventory Model and academic • SF-CHAMP Travel Forecasting Model (San Francisco institutions. Bay Area regional travel demand model)
Comparative Risk Provides information on World Health Organization's Assessment in the (WHO) Comparative Risk Assessment methodology, http://www.who.int/qu Nation World Health Environment Global Burden of defined as the systematic evaluation of the changes in antifying_ehimpacts/m Models Methods Region Organization Health and Healthcare Disease Study and the population health which result from modifying the ethods/en/wsh0007an4. Local (WHO) Environmental Health population distribution of exposure to a risk factor or a pdf Risks group of risk factors.
Describes and compares the various methods and tools that can be used to forecast non-motorized travel http://safety.fhwa.dot.g demand or that otherwise support the prioritization and Region ov/ped_bike/docs/guid Guidebook on analyses of bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The State Federal Highways ebook1.pdf Built Environment Models Methods Methods to Estimate guidebook is intended to be used by bicycle and County Administration Transportation Non-Motorized Travel pedestrian planners, technical staff, researchers, City (FHWA) http://safety.fhwa.dot.g advocates, and others who may wish to estimate bicycle Local ov/ped_bike/docs/guid and pedestrian travel demand or to prioritize bicycle and ebook2.pdf pedestrian projects.
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Methods for Calculating Forest Ecosystem and U.S. Department Harvested Carbon with http://www.fs.fed.us/ec Provides a methodology for determining possible of Agriculture Models Methods Environment Standard Estimates for Region osystemservices/pdf/est sequestration ability of local forest cover. (USDA) Forest Forest Types of the imates-forest-types.pdf Service United States (Carbon Sequestration Estimates)
U.S. Department Provides customized estimates of an individual or of Housing and household’s transportation costs, how much they would Urban vary in different locations, and how much they are County Development impacted by individual choices, allowing users to make Economics City (HUD); U.S. My Transportation more informed decisions about where to live and work. http://www.locationaff Models Methods Housing Local Department of Cost Calculator Users enter basic information about their families’ ordability.info/tcc.aspx Transportation Zip code Transportation income, housing, cars, and travel patterns and the tool Address (DOT); U.S. calculates annual housing and transportation costs and Environmental provides a comparison to the costs for a similar Protection Agency household in the same location. (EPA)
A suite of on-line calculators that provide methods and U.S. http://www3.epa.gov/c Environment On-Site: the On-line data for common calculations used in assessing Environmental Models Methods Site-specific eampubl/learn2model/ Health and Healthcare Site Assessment Tool transport and impacts of environmental contaminants in Protection Agency part-two/onsite/ the subsurface. (EPA)
Understanding Child A methodology for determining childcare supply and http://www.enterprisec Built Environment Care Supply and demand in a community, and can also be used to The Enterprise ommunity.com/resourc Models Methods Local Education Demand in the determine childcare demand created by new Foundation es/resourceDetails?ID= Community development. 19705.pdf#
Identifies the basic elements of the Cumulative Risk U.S. http://www.epa.gov/ris Framework for Assessment (CRA) process and is intended to foster Nation Environment Environmental k/framework- Models Frameworks Cumulative Risk consistent approaches to cumulative risk assessment, Region Health and Healthcare Protection Agency cumulative-risk- Assessment identify key issues, and define terms used in these Local (EPA) assessment assessments.
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http://www.epa.gov/sit Provides information on watershed approaches, guiding U.S. es/production/files/201 principles, the need for and benefits of these approaches, Watershed Approach Environmental 5- Models Frameworks Environment how to implement the guiding principles through State Watershed Framework Protection Agency 06/documents/watershe and Tribal watershed approaches, U.S. Environmental (EPA) d-approach- Protection Agency (EPA) support, and FAQs. framework.pdf
An index for reporting daily air quality. It indicates how clean or unhealthy the air is and what associated health https://www.airnow.go effects might be a concern. Focuses on health effects Air Quality Index U.S. v/index.cfm?action=aq you may experience within a few hours or days after Nation Environment (AQI): A Guide to Air Environmental ibasics.aqi Models Indices breathing unhealthy air. Calculated for four major air State Health and Healthcare Quality and Your Protection Agency pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act: ground-level Local Health (EPA) http://www.airnow.gov ozone, particle pollution, carbon monoxide, and sulfur / dioxide. National air quality standards are established for each of these pollutants to protect public health.
A public access bikeability index that measures whether Built Environment an area is good for biking. Measures bike infrastructure City https://www.walkscore. Environment (lanes, trails, etc.), hills, destinations and road Local Models Indices BikeScore™ Walk Score com/bike-score- Health and Healthcare connectivity, and the number of bike commuters. Zip code methodology.shtml Transportation Calculates a Bike Score on a scale from 0 (somewhat Address bikeable) to 100 (biker's paradise).
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Nation State County Census tract Block group Contains statistics about major categories of personal Place and property crime. Updated annually, the Crime Index http://doc.arcgis.com/e Zip code Crime data variables include information about murder, rape, n/esri- Models Indices Crime Indexes Census subdivision Esri Health and Healthcare robbery, assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. The demographics/data/cri (CSD) data is available in a variety of geographies. me-indexes.htm Core based statistical $ area (CBSA) Designated market area (DMA) Congressional district
Examines where pedestrian fatalities happen and who’s most at risk, presenting data from every county, metro Nation http://www.smartgrowt area, and state. Interactive maps provide geolocated Region Built Environment hamerica.org/research/ Dangerous by Design pedestrian fatalities, comparisons of state summaries, State Smart Growth Models Indices Health and Healthcare dangerous-by- 2014 and regional data. The Pedestrian Danger Index (PDI) Local America Transportation design/dbd2014/nation shows the relative likelihood in a given area of a person Zip code al-overview on foot being hit by a vehicle and killed at the state and Address regional levels.
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Nation State County Census tract http://www.arcgis.com/ Represents the likelihood that two persons in the U.S., Block group home/item.html?id=ff5 chosen at random from the same area, belong to Place 8e236068b42909e670 different race or ethnic groups. Ranges from 0 (no Zip code 8e5a6c60bff Demographics diversity) to 100 (complete diversity). Provides Census subdivision Models Indices Diversity Index Esri Population Diversity Index (expressed as a percentage) and (CSD) http://downloads.esri.c population counts by race and ethnicity for the selected Core based statistical om/esri_content_doc/d location. Available down to the block group level. area (CBSA) bl/us/J10170_US_Dive $ Designated market rsity_Index.pdf area (DMA) Congressional district
Frank LD, Sallis J, et al. 2010. The development of a Frank and Sallis A combined measure of net residential density, road walkability index: Environment Geographic network connectivity, retail floor area ratio, and land use application to the Models Indices Health and Healthcare Information Systems mix. Can be calculated using archival GIS data rather Local Neighborhood N/A Transportation (GIS)- Based than by means of intensive primary data collection Quality of Life Walkability Index efforts. Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine 43:924- 933.
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Provides a comprehensive view of affordability that includes both the cost of housing and the cost of transportation for a select location and sets the Region Housing + Economics benchmark at no more than 45% of household income. County The Center for Transportation Models Indices Housing Allows users to view housing and transportation data as City Neighborhood http://htaindex.cnt.org/ (H+T®) Affordability Transportation maps, charts and statistics for 917 metropolitan and Local Technology Index micropolitan areas—covering 94% of the US Census block group population. Costs can be seen from the regional down to the neighborhood level.
Uses a suite of measures to evaluate the influence of social, economic and environmental service flows on components of human well-being based on eight http://www.mdpi.com/ domains of well-being include Connection to Nature, Nation 2071- Economics U.S. Cultural Fulfillment, Education, Health, Leisure time, Region 1050/6/6/3915/pdf Education Human Wellbeing Environmental Models Indices Living Standards, Safety and Security, and Social State Health and Healthcare Index (HWBI) Protection Agency Cohesion. The HWBI is a combination of the scores for County http://nepis.epa.gov/Ex Social Environment (EPA) each of the eight domains. When tracked over time, the Local e/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey index can serve as a measure of sustainability as the =P100GRUA.txt values are responsive to changes in select economic, social and ecological services.
Gives estimates of the percentage of a family's income U.S. Department dedicated to the combined cost of housing and of Housing and transportation in a given location. Because what is Urban affordable is different for everyone, users can choose County Development among eight different family profiles--defined by Economics City (HUD); U.S. Location Affordability household income, size, and number of commuters--and http://www.locationaff Models Indices Housing Local Department of Index (LAI) see the affordability landscape for each one in a ordability.info/lai.aspx Transportation Zip code Transportation neighborhood, city, or region. Provides a more complete Address (DOT); U.S. understanding of the costs of living in a given location Environmental by accounting for variations between households, Protection Agency neighborhoods, and regions, all of which impact (EPA) affordability.
Page 109 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category Measuring the Outcomes of Low- The Home Energy Insecurity Scale is a tool used to U.S. Department http://www.acf.hhs.gov Income Energy Environment quantitatively measure the extent to which an energy of Health and /sites/default/files/ocs/ Models Indices Assistance Programs N/A Housing assistance program improves the energy self-sufficiency Human Services measuring_outcome_0. through a Home of a low-income household. (DHHS) pdf Energy Insecurity Scale
Measures and evaluates metropolitan sprawl based on Built Environment four factors: residential density; neighborhood mix of Metropolitan Environment homes, jobs, and services; strength of activity centers counties http://www.smartgrowt Metropolitan Sprawl Smart Growth Models Indices Health and Healthcare and downtowns; and accessibility of the street network. Metropolitan hamerica.org/measurin Index America Housing Sprawl Index scores have been calculated for 221 statistical areas g-sprawl Transportation metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and 994 (MSAs) metropolitan counties.
Built Environment Represents a multi-attribute Quality of Life and Health Business and Industry data compilation that assesses neighborhood level, place- Crime based amenities and the state of community wellbeing. Economics Data is grouped into a Neighborhood Quality of Life Georgia Tech Education Neighborhood Quality (NQoL) Index, Neighborhood Health (NH) Index, and Center for http://www.cgis.gatech Models Indices Environment of Life and Health Socioeconomic Conditions (SEC) Index. Although Local Geographic .edu/NQOLH/ Health and Healthcare (NQoLH) Project implemented in Atlanta, a major objective of the project Information Housing was to create a replicable format for other localities to Systems Labor and Workplace follow. Most of the data was collected from public data Population sources available nationwide, such as the U.S. Census Transportation Bureau and American Community Survey.
Measures how well the 100 largest U.S. cities meet the Built Environment need for parks. Using advanced GIS, identifies Demographics neighborhoods and demographics that are underserved The Trust for Models Indices Environment ParkScore® Index City http://parkscore.tpl.org/ by parks and the number of people able to reach a park Public Land Population within a ten-minute walk. Also provides in-depth data to guide local park improvement efforts.
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Can be used to quantify how well a roadway network connects destinations. Indices can be measured separately for motorized and nonmotorized travel, taking Built Environment Road Connectivity Victoria Transport http://www.vtpi.org/td Models Indices into account nonmotorized shortcuts, such as paths that Local Transportation Indices Policy Institute m/tdm116.htm connect cul-de-sacs, and barriers such as highways and roads that lack sidewalks. Several different methods can be used and are listed on the source's webpage.
An online framework and data repository that examines how San Francisco neighborhoods perform across eight dimensions of a vision for a healthy, equitable Built Environment The San Francisco community. The eight community well-being Crime Indicator Project dimensions in the SF Indicator Project include: Economics [formerly the environment, transportation, community cohesion, San Francisco Education Sustainable Region public realm, education, housing, economy, and health Department of http://www.sfindicator Models Indices Environment Communities Index City systems. Contains over 100 indicators or measures to Public Health project.org/ Health and Healthcare (SCI) and the Health Local track objectives for each of the eight dimensions. (SFDPH) Housing Development Indicators were chosen because of their importance to Labor and Workplace Measurement Tool the objective and their connection to health. The Transportation (HDMT)] measurement methods in the SF Indicator Project have been used and adapted by a number of other regions, cities, and communities.
Quantifies the combined effect of congestion and the http://transact.org/wp- Easing the Burden: degree to which people are exposed to it. Considers Surface Health and Healthcare content/uploads/2014/0 Models Indices Traffic Congestion measures of rush-hour traffic and travel rates with City Transportation Transportation 4/Easing_The_Burden. Burden Index figures for the portion of commuters who are subject to Policy Project pdf that congestion because they drive to work.
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Provides a forecast of the expected risk of overexposure to UV radiation from the sun on a 1-11+ scale. The National Weather Service calculates the UV Index U.S. State Environment forecast for most ZIP codes across the U.S., and the U.S. Environmental https://www.epa.gov/su Models Indices UV Index City Health and Healthcare Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes this Protection Agency nsafety/uv-index-1 Zip code information. Also includes recommendations for sun (EPA) protection and information on the health effects of UV radiation.
A public access walkability index that assigns a numerical walkability score to any address. Analyzes Built Environment City hundreds of walking routes to nearby amenities and Environment Local http://www.walkscore. Models Indices Walk Score® measures pedestrian friendliness by analyzing Walk Score Health and Healthcare Zip code com/ population density and road metrics such as block length Transportation Address and intersection density. The Walk Score is a number between 0 (car dependent) and 100 (walker’s paradise).
A public access transit index that measures how well a Built Environment City location is served by public transit. Measures transit https://www.walkscore. Environment Local Models Indices Transit Score® accessibility on a scale from 0 (minimal transit) to 100 Walk Score com/transit-score- Health and Healthcare Zip code (rider's paradise). Calculates distance to closest stop on methodology.shtml Transportation Address each route, analyzes route frequency, and type.
A GIS analysis of walkability and local access to http://efiles.portlandore services that takes into account both the presence of gon.gov/webdrawer.dll Economics 20-Minute local destinations, as well as factors that impact the /webdrawer/rec/43762 Environment City City of Portland Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Neighborhood ability to access these destinations (e.g., street 18/ Health and Healthcare Local Oregon Analysis connectivity, sidewalks, transit service, and view/PP%2020- Transportation topography). Although developed by the City of min%20neighborhood Portland, this methodology can be applied in any city. %20analysis.PDF
A free geospatial data resource and web mapping tool for comparing the accessibility of neighborhoods via Housing U.S. https://www.epa.gov/s Access to Jobs and public transit service. Indicators summarize accessibility Labor and Workplace Select metropolitan Environmental martgrowth/smart- Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Workers Via Transit to jobs, as well as accessibility by workers, households, Population regions Protection Agency location- Tool and population. Coverage is limited to metropolitan Transportation (EPA) mapping#Trans45 regions served by transit agencies that share their service data in a standard format.
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A geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. Users can create and use maps, compile geographic data, analyze mapped information, share and discover geographic information, http://www.esri.com/so use maps and geographic information in a range of ftware/arcgis applications, and manage geographic information on a ArcGIS/ArcGIS Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping N/A database. All Esri Explorer Desktop http://www.esri.com/so $ ftware/arcgis/explorer- desktop ArcGIS Explorer Desktop is a free GIS viewer that provides more limited ability to create and use maps, compile geographic data, perform spatial analyses, and more.
Created for program grant applicants, but can be used for other applications as well. After creating an account and drawing the exact location of your target State U.S. Department neighborhood, the tool will then calculate the number of Choice Neighborhoods County of Housing and https://www.huduser.g Demographics housing units, the average poverty rate, and the vacancy Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Program Mapping City Urban ov/portal/maps/CN/ho Housing rate of the area drawn and send an email back to you Tool Zip code Development me.html within 24 hours. Address (HUD) Also includes a map data viewer that shows tracts, block groups and poverty rates without creating an account.
Institute for People, Place, and An interactive mapping platform that allows you to view Possibility (IP3); Community maps others have made and make your own maps for a Center for Applied http://maps.community Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping N/A Commons: Make a geographic location, using available built environment, Varies Research and commons.org/viewer/ Map civic/social, economic, education, environment, and Environmental health data. Systems (CARES); Community Initiatives
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A GIS-based software (ArcGIS extension) that provides tools for visualization, analysis, and communication that can improve the land use decision process, including http://placeways.com/c Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Built Environment CommunityViz growth projections, economic-environmental-social Varies Placeways ommunityviz/index.ht impact analysis, land use priorities, build-out and ml suitability analyses, and more. $
County An environmental justice (EJ) mapping and screening City tool that provides a nationally consistent dataset and Town approach for combining environmental and U.S. Zip code EJSCREEN demographic indicators. Users choose a geographic area Environmental http://www.epa.gov/ejs Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment Census block group (replaces EJView) and the tool then provides demographic and Protection Agency creen Address environmental information for that area. Includes 11 (EPA) Latitude and environmental indicators, 6 demographic indicators, and Longitude 11 EJ indexes. coordinates
Nation Allows users to map various types of environmental State information from the EPA's Envirofacts database, Park name U.S. including waterbodies, transportation, facilities, air Waterbody Environmental http://www.epa.gov/em Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment EnviroMapper releases, drinking water, toxic releases, hazardous County Protection Agency efdata/em4ef.home wastes, water discharge permits, Superfund sites, and City (EPA) more. Users can create maps at various geographic Zip code levels and link them to environmental text reports. Address
A GIS-based tool for scenario-based community and Regional Built Environment regional integrated planning and environmental State Demographics assessments. Provides a platform for integrating a Oregon State http://envision.bioe.ors Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Envision County Environment variety of spatially explicit models of landscape change University t.edu/ City Transportation processes and production for conducting alternative Local futures analyses.
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An open-access land-use scenario planning software tool that allows users to “paint” development scenarios on the landscape, and compare scenario outcomes in real University of Utah Built Environment time. Scenario comparisons include a comprehensive – Metropolitan Demographics http://www.arch.utah.e Envision Tomorrow range of indicators relating to land use, housing, Research Center Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment Varies du/cgi-bin/wordpress- Plus (ET+) demographics, economic growth, development (MRC); Fregonese Housing etplus/ feasibility, fiscal impacts, transportation, environmental Associates of Transportation factors, and quality of life. ET+ provides a quick, sketch- Portland, OR level glimpse of the possible impacts of policies, development decisions, and current growth trajectories.
Provides access to greenhouse gas (GHG) data reported to EPA by large emitters, facilities that inject CO2 underground, and suppliers of products that result in GHG emissions when used in the United States. Allows users to view data in several formats including maps, Facility Level U.S. tables, charts and graphs for individual facilities or Built Environment Information on Environmental http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping groups of facilities. Users can search the data set for Varies Environment GreenHouse Gases Protection Agency ghgp/main.do individual facilities by name or location or filter the data Tool (FLIGHT) (EPA) set by state or county, fuel type, industry sectors and sub- sectors, annual facility emission thresholds, and greenhouse gas type. Users can also compare emission trends over time and download data generated as a product of your analyses.
Federal GeoPlatform Map Allows users to map the data available through the Geographic Data https://www.geoplatfor Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment Varies Viewer GeoPlatform (see Databases). Committee m.gov/ (FGDC)
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A web mapping application that offers street maps; a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike, or with public transportation; and a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world. Google Earth http://maps.google.com Built Environment combines maps and geographic information with / Google Map/Google Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Business and Industry satellite and aerial photography, allowing the user to All Google Earth Transportation view 3D imagery, terrain, and buildings. Note that http://www.google.com Earth View is a feature in Google Maps that allows users /earth/index.html to see the same high-resolution imagery, terrain, and 3D buildings that are available in the desktop version of Google Earth.
Business and Industry http://www.pitneybowe Crime A desktop-based GIS mapping software providing data s.com/us/location- Demographics on retail, government, public safety, natural resources, Pitney Bowes intelligence/geographic- Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Economics MapInfo Pro All and geosciences. Software information- Environment $ systems/mapinfo- Transportation pro.html
Built Environment Crime Demographics Offers easy-to-use online mapping of thousands of data Economics indicators, including data on demographics, income and Education spending, housing, lending activity, quality of life, https://www.policymap Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment PolicyMap Varies PolicyMap economy, education, health, federal guidelines, and .com/ Health and Healthcare more across the U.S. at various geographic scales. Housing $ Labor and Workplace Population Transportation
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A set of ArcGIS tools that can be used to create National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) events for both state and EPA programs. These events link water-related information, such as water quality assessments, to the Bureau of Land underlying NHD surface water features. EPA has Management developed a supplemental set of indexing functions for Hydrography Event (BLM); U.S. HEM, which are available through the HEM EPA Management (HEM) Environmental http://nhd.usgs.gov/too Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping Environment Add‐Ons toolbar. This toolbar allows users to create, Varies Tool and EPA Add- Protection Agency ls.html#hem edit and manage custom point, line and area events and ons Toolbar (EPA); U.S. includes functionality that was previously a part of the Geological Survey PC based Reach Indexing Tool (PC-RIT), such as Find (USGS) Overlapping Waterbodies, Extract from EPA Program Events, and a post processing tool to aid in preparing events for submission to the EPA's Reach Address Database (RAD).
A web-based mapping application that enables non- Region technical and advanced users to quickly create State Business and Industry professional thematic maps and reports using powerful Congressional Demographics demographic, business, and marketing data. Currently districts Economics Geographic http://geographicresear Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping SimplyMap offer more than 75,000 data variables related to County Health and Healthcare Research, Inc. ch.com/simplymap/ demographics, employment, housing, market segments, City Housing businesses, consumer spending, brand preferences, Zip code Labor and Workplace public health, and more. Census tract $ Block group
Provides spatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as Built Environment roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical https://www.census.go GIS-Based Mapping U.S. Census Mapping Environment TIGER Products geographic areas, and select demographic and economic Varies v/geo/maps- Map Data Viewers Bureau Population data. Several file types (shapefiles, databases, data/data/tiger.html geodatabases, and kml) and an online mapping application are available.
Page 117 Primary Subcategory Topic(s) Name Description Geographic Scope Source(s) Web Link(s) Category GIS databases housing geographic data for a variety of topics, interactive mapping tools using multiple layers of data, and guidelines for using mapping may be available Possible data in particular areas. Available data will vary place to sources may place. include: State, County, and Examples of state, county, and local mapping data State City Government sources include: State, County, and County GIS websites; Mapping Tools GIS-Based Mapping N/A N/A Local Mapping Data City Departments of • MassGIS Local Planning and/or • NYSGIS Clearinghouse Permitting; Office • Benton County Maps and GIS Repository of Geographic • City of Austin GIS Data Sets Information; GIS • Cincinnati Area Geographic Information System Clearinghouses (CAGIS) • Mapping Susceptibility to Gentrification: The Early Warning Toolkit
Nation Allows users to discover how transportation impacts the Region affordability and sustainability of where people live. State Estimates the average cost of transportation for a typical Center for Environment County Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Abogo household in the neighborhood, which includes the costs Neighborhood http://abogo.cnt.org/ Transportation City of car ownership, car use, and transit use and tells Technology Zip Code approximately how much greenhouse gas (GHG) this car Census Tract use would generate. Address Allows users to see where air quality monitors are U.S. AirData Interactive located, get information about the monitors, and All Environmental http://www.epa.gov/air Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Environment Map download monitor data. Select which monitoring Protection Agency data/ad_maps.html networks to display. (EPA)
A web-based map data viewer that maps data for over U.S. Department http://www.ers.usda.go 60 socioeconomic indicators to better understand the Nation Agriculture of Agriculture v/data-products/atlas- Atlas of Rural and economic, demographic, environmental, and social Region Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Demographics (USDA) Economic of-rural-and-small- Small-Town America forces affecting rural regions and communities. State Labor and Workplace Research Service town-america/go-to-the- Indicators are provided in four main categories: people, County (ERS) atlas.aspx jobs, veterans, and county classifications.
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U.S. Department of Health and Enables users to prepare maps that compare the Human Services Area Health Resources http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/arf Environment availability of healthcare providers, as well as State (DHHS) Health Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Files (AHRF) dashboard/ArfGeo.asp Health and Healthcare environmental factors impacting health at the county County Resources and Mapping Tool x and state levels. Services Administration (HRSA)
An interactive mapping application that graphically displays the prevalence of behavioral risk factors at the state, territory, and metropolitan and micropolitan State Behavioral Risk Factor Centers for statistical areas (MMSA) level. Features include Territory Surveillance System Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/brf Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Health and Healthcare multiple data classification methods, map panning and Metropolitan & (BRFSS) GIS Data and Prevention ss/gis/gis_maps.htm zooming, related prevalence tables, downloadable map micropolitan and Maps (CDC) images, and the capability to download the BRFSS data statistical areas in a GIS shapefile data format for more detailed analysis.
A website providing maps or C.L.A.S.S. scoring data on state-level codified laws for physical education (PE) and nutrition in schools. The scoring criteria for these Classification of Laws systems are based on current public health research and Education Associated with national recommendations and standards for PE and National Cancer http://class.cancer.gov/ Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers State Health and Healthcare School Students nutrition in schools. Data, maps, and profiles can be Institute map_pe.aspx (C.L.A.S.S.) Data Map used to compare PE and nutrition laws from all 50 states and the District of Columbia against national standards and medians, allowing users to assess differences across states and changes over time.
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Nation EPA Region EPA Facility Registry ID EPA Program ID Cleanup name Enables users enables users to map and list hazardous U.S. Tribal land http://ofmpub.epa.gov/ Built Environment Cleanups in My waste cleanup locations and grant areas, and drill down Environmental Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Watershed apex/cimc/f?p=cimc:6 Environment Community to details about those cleanups and grants and other, Protection Agency Congressional 3:0::::: related information. (EPA) District Latitude/ Longitude State Territory City Zip code
Institute for A report and map generating web-based platform to People, Place, and better understand the health needs and assets of Possibility (IP3); Community Health communities and to collaborate to make measurable Center for Applied http://assessment.com Needs Assessment improvements in community health and well-being. Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Health and Healthcare Census tract Research and munitycommons.org/C (CHNA) Health Assesses the determinants of health and current health Environmental HNA/MapGallery.aspx Indicators Map Gallery status of communities, the identification of community Systems (CARES); resources, and the fostering of public dialogue and Community collective action. Initiatives
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EnviroAtlas is a collection of tools and resources that provides geospatial data, maps, research, and analysis on the relationships between nature, people, health, and the economy. EnviroAtlas contains information on the status of the benefits that humans receive from nature, the ecosystems that provide and protect them, and Demographics related health and economic impacts. Two primary Nation U.S. http://www.epa.gov/en Economics EnviroAtlas spatial scales are featured in EnviroAtlas- national and State Environmental Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers viroatlas/enviroatlas- Environment Interactive Map community. The national component summarizes data County Protection Agency interactive-map Health and Healthcare by 12-digit hydrologic unit codes for the contiguous Select cities (EPA) United States. The community component summarizes data by census block groups, for select cities development of the community component is currently underway for 50 cities and towns of varying sizes, locations, demographic makeups, and environmental and health risks.
U.S. Department A web-based mapping tool that displays statistics on http://www.ers.usda.go Nation of Agriculture Food Environment food environment indicators and provides a spatial v/data-products/food- Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Health and Healthcare State (USDA) Economic Atlas overview of a community's ability to access healthy food environment- Research Service and its success in doing so. atlas/.aspx (ERS)
An interactive web atlas that brings together various Demographics sources of health, socio-economic and environmental Economics information in a convenient, central location to help Education answer questions about and improve health and American http://www.healthlands Environment healthcare. Includes a Med School Mapper, Health Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers HealthLandscape Varies Academy of cape.org/live- Health and Healthcare Workforce Mapper, Hospital Readmissions Explorer, Family Physicians Applications.cfm Housing Nursing Home Star Ratings Explorer, Children's Health Labor and Workplace and Education Mapping Tool, Population Health Population Mapper, Social Determinants of Health Mapper, Community and International Data Portals, and more.
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A national land cover product created by the Multi- Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. Multi-Resolution National Land Cover Provides - for the first time - the capability to assess wall- Land http://www.mrlc.gov/nl Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Environment All Database (NLCD) to-wall, spatially explicit, national land cover changes Characteristics cd2011.php and trends across the United States from 2001 to 2011. Consortium Data is also available from 2006, 2001, and 1922.
Local Area Offers maps of select statistics from the U.S. Bureau of U.S. Bureau of http://data.bls.gov/map State Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Labor and Workplace Unemployment Labor Statistics (BLS), including rates of change of total Labor Statistics /MapToolServlet?surve County Statistics (LAUS) Map employment and unemployment. (BLS) y=la
Includes orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, Agriculture transportation, structures, and land cover. Other types of Built Environment The National Map U.S. Geological Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers geographic information can be added within the viewer All http://nationalmap.gov/ Environment Survey (USGS) or brought in with The National Map data into a Transportation Geographic Information System to create specific types of maps or map views.
Makes a collection of small-scale datasets originally developed for the National Atlas (which was retired in The National Map Agriculture September 2014), available to users. Offers 197 small- Small Scale Built Environment scale datasets for download and access to the small-scale U.S. Geological http://www.nationalatla Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers (offers some of the Varies Environment web map and feature services. Also continues to offer Survey (USGS) s.gov/atlasftp.html data and maps of the Transportation the Set of Dynamic Topographic Maps Illustrating former National Atlas) Physical Features and hundreds of printable maps developed for the National Atlas.
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State Tribal land County An online mapping and reporting application showing Local Business and Industry where workers are employed and where they live, with Zip code Demographics companion reports on worker characteristics, and Address U.S. Census http://onthemap.ces.ce Mapping Tools Map Data Viewers Labor and Workplace OnTheMap optional filtering by age, earnings, or industry groups. It Core based statistical Bureau nsus.gov/ Population provides an easy-to-use interface for creating, viewing, area (CBSA) printing and downloading workforce related maps, Census tract profiles, and underlying data. Census block groups Workforce investment areas (WIA)
An interactive map viewer that provides a sample of Built Environment variables from EPA's Smart Location Database, a http://www.arcgis.com/ Demographics consolidated geographic data resource for measuring U.S. home/webmap/viewer. Housing Smart Location location efficiency. The Smart Location Database has Environmental Mapping Map Data Viewers All html?webmap=137d4e Labor and Workplace Database Map Viewer over 90 different variables characterizing the built Protection Agency 512249480c980e0080 Population environment, accessibility to destinations, employment, (EPA) 7562da10 Transportation and demographics for every census block group in the United States.
Sortable Stats Nation Centers for A map viewer that displays the thirty-three risk factors Demographics (Sortable Risk Factors Federal Region Disease Control http://sortablestats.cdc. Mapping Map Data Viewers and health indicators in the CDC's Sortable Stats Health and Healthcare and Health Indicators) Territory and Prevention gov/#/map database. Map View State (CDC)
An internet‐based mapping tool that provides a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and http://www.ers.usda.go Built Environment USDA Food Access other census tracts using different measures of U.S. Department v/data-products/food- Demographics Mapping Map Data Viewers Research Atlas supermarket accessibility, provides food access data for Census tract of Agriculture access-research- Health and Healthcare Map Viewer populations within census tracts, and pinpoints the (USDA) atlas/go-to-the- Transportation location of food deserts (low‐income communities that atlas.aspx lack ready access to healthy food).
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Discharge Monitoring U.S. Department Built Environment Report (DMR) A tool that maps facility, pollutant, or industry data from http://cfpub.epa.gov/d Mapping Map Data Viewers State of Agriculture Environment Pollutant Loading the DMR as counts or percentage by state. mr/data_explorer.cfm (USDA) Tool Data Explorer
An observational tool designed to assess key street-level features of the neighborhood environment that are http://www.activeforlif thought to be related to physical activity behavior. The Saint Louis e.info/generations/Reso Data Collection Built Environment Active Neighborhood data collected can be used to generate descriptive Qualitative Local University School urces/Toolkits/Active% Tools Environment Checklist statistics about an area or route, to raise community of Public Health 20Neighborhood%20C awareness about the role of the environment in hecklist.pdf supporting or discouraging physical activity, and/or to mobilize community members to advocate for change.
An evaluation guide that evaluates how livable Built Environment communities are for older adults and helps residents Crime determine how to make communities more livable for http://assets.aarp.org/rg Data Collection Environment Livable Communities: AARP Public Qualitative older adults. Self-assessment survey tools measure Local center/il/d18311_com Tools Health and Healthcare An Evaluation Guide Policy Institute walkability, transportation, health services, shopping, munities.pdf Housing housing, safety and security, caring community, and Transportation recreation and cultural activities.
Participatory http://www.ophi.org/do Photography Project Provides a framework for individuals and groups Oregon Public wnload/PDF/healthy_p Data Collection Guide From Qualitative N/A conducting a participatory photography (PP) project as a N/A Health Institute lanning_pdfs/ophi%20 Tools Community tool for social change. (OPHI) photovoice%20guide_ Assessment to 0916.pdf Political Action
A website dedicated to participatory photography and digital storytelling methods, including a comprehensive http://www.photovoice. Data Collection Qualitative N/A PhotoVoice manual outlining what photovoice is and consists of, N/A PhotoVoice org/photovoice- Tools project design, equipment needed, monitoring and manual/ evaluation, and photovoice workshop facilitation.
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Toolkit offering information on the principles of designing accessible and safe bus stops and conducting http://www.pedbikeinf Toolkit for the a bus stop inventory. Can be used to determine Built Environment Easter Seals o.org/pdf/PlanDesign_ Data Collection Assessment of Bus minimum ADA requirements, enhance bus stop Local Qualitative Health and Healthcare Project Action Tools_Audits_EasterSe Tools Stop Accessibility and accessibility through universal design, inventory bus Site-specific Transportation (ESPA) alsBusStopAccess2006 Safety stops, develop a strategic plan for .pdf system-wide accessibility, and advocate for improvements.
A quantitative observational survey to assess the bicycle http://www.sfhealthequ environment on roadways and evaluate what streetscape San Francisco Built Environment ity.org/elements/24- Data Collection Bicycle Environmental improvements could be made to promote bicycling. Department of Quantitative Health and Healthcare Local elements/tools/102- Tools Quality Index (BEQI) Examines physical and environmental factors in five Public Health Transportation bicycle-environmental- main categories: Intersection Safety, Vehicle Traffic, (SFDPH) quality-index Street Design, Safety, and Land Use.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration A short seven-question checklist (or survey) that (NHTSA); Built Environment http://www.lmb.org/im evaluates the biking environment, including perceptions Pedestrian and Data Collection Environment ages/stories/Advocacy_ Quantitative Bikeability Checklist of safety and personal information and produces a score Local Bicycle Tools Health and Healthcare Toolkit/Documents/bik for the community. For each question, short- and long- Information Transportation abilitychecklist.pdf term recommendations for improvement are provided. Center; U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
A checklist that serves as the first step in assessing how well a community is positioned to avoid and/or reduce U.S. https://www.epa.gov/si Data Collection Built Environment Flood Resilience flood damage and to recover from floods. This checklist Environmental tes/production/files/20 Quantitative Local Tools Environment Checklist can help communities identify opportunities to improve Protection Agency 14-07/documents/flood- their resilience to future floods through policy and (EPA) resilience-checklist.pdf regulatory tools and non-regulatory programs.
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An Excel spreadsheet that allows the user to quickly evaluate various low impact development (LID) features http://www.mmsd.com on a development site to meet detention requirements. /- Milwaukee Data Collection Built Environment The Unit Release Rate method is utilized for these /media/MMSD/Docum Quantitative LID Quicksheet Site-specific Metropolitan Tools Environment analyses. LID features include rain gardens, rain barrels, ents/Rules%20and%20 Sewerage District green roofs, cisterns, and permeable pavement. Can Regs/Manuals/Appendi evaluate 2-year and 100-year, 24 hour storm events. x_L.pdf $
A survey that assesses residents' perception of Built Environment neighborhood design features related to physical Neighborhood James F. Sallis, Crime activity, including residential density, land use mix Data Collection Environment University of http://sallis.ucsd.edu/m Quantitative Environment (including both indices of proximity and accessibility), Local Tools Walkability Scale California San easure_news.html Health and Healthcare street connectivity, infrastructure for walking/cycling, (NEWS) Diego Transportation neighborhood aesthetics, traffic and crime safety, and neighborhood satisfaction.
A computer-based instrument that allows trained Purdue University observers to assess physical characteristics of Built Environment Department of Data Collection Path Environment community trails and paths, including design, amenity, http://activelivingresea Quantitative Environment Site-specific Health and Tools Audit Tool (PEAT) and aesthetics/maintenance items. Has acceptable inter- rch.org/node/10652 Transportation Kinesiology observer reliability and validity for most of its primary items and can be used by researchers and practitioners.
University of Built Environment Pedestrian An audit instrument that measures environmental Data Collection Maryland; http://planningandactiv Quantitative Environment Environment Data features related to walking in varied environments in the Local Tools University of ity.unc.edu/RP1.htm Transportation Scan (PEDS) U.S. North Carolina
http://www.sfhealthequ An observational survey that quantifies street and San Francisco ity.org/elements/24- Built Environment Pedestrian intersection factors empirically known to affect people's Data Collection Department of elements/tools/106- Quantitative Health and Healthcare Environmental Quality travel behaviors and is organized into five categories: Local Tools Public Health pedestrian- Transportation Index (PEQI) intersection safety, traffic, street design, land use and (SFDPH) environmental-quality- perceived safety. index
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An audit instrument that measures physical http://activelivingresea Systematic Pedestrian Built Environment environmental factors that influence walking and rch.org/systematic- Data Collection and Cycling The University of Quantitative Environment cycling in local neighborhoods. The instrument is used Local pedestrian-and-cycling- Tools Environmental Scan Western Australia Transportation in combination with additional tools based on environmental-scan- (SPACES) Instrument Geographical Information Systems (GIS). spaces-instrument
A free, online survey website that allows users to design Data Collection https://www.surveymo Quantitative N/A SurveyMonkey and distribute original surveys. Automatically provides N/A SurveyMonkey Tools nkey.com/ descriptive analytics for survey results.
Arnold School of http://activelivingresea Data Collection Built Environment Community Park A survey instrument designed to evaluate parks for their Public Health, Mixed Methods Site-specific rch.org/community- Tools Health and Healthcare Audit Tool (CPAT) potential to promote physical activity. University of park-audit-tool-cpat South Carolina
A virtual tool box that provides resources and tools to help people work together to build healthier http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tab Kansas University Community Tool Box: communities and assess community needs and le-of- Data Collection Work Group for Mixed Methods Varies Assessing Community resources, including information on conducting surveys Local contents/assessment/as Tools Community Health Needs and Resources and interviews, Needs Assessment Surveys, SWOT sessing-community- and Development (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) needs-and-resources Analysis, GIS Analyses, and more.
Built Environment Provides tools for active transport measurement, food Environment security assessment, GIS participatory methods, noise Data Collection Design for Health http://designforhealth.n Mixed Methods Health and Healthcare mapping, obesity measures, pedestrian and bicycling Local Design For Health Tools Tools et/tools/tools-a-z/ Population surveys, photographing and other visual tools, rural Transportation health mapping, surveillance, and more.
Built Environment Demographics Tools to assess the physical environment features and Maine Rural http://activelivingresea Education Rural Active Living amenities, town characteristics, community programs, Data Collection Town Health Research rch.org/rural-active- Mixed Methods Environment Assessment (RALA) and policies that can affect physical activity among Tools Local Center, University living-assessment-rala- Health and Healthcare Tools residents in rural communities. The tools using GIS and of Southern Maine tools Population surveys to gather data for analysis. Transportation
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A webpage that contains survey questions and a list of validation studies for standardized survey questions concerning walking and biking from multiple national Walking & Biking Built Environment and international physical activity surveys and http://appliedresearch.c Data Collection Related Items from National Cancer Mixed Methods Health and Healthcare questionnaires (PAQs). Provides easy access to a large Varies ancer.gov/paq/reflist.ht Tools Physical Activity Institute Transportation number of questions assessing duration and frequency of ml Questionnaires walking and bicycling in the non-disabled adult population. The results of validation studies identified for some of the PAQs are briefly reviewed.
Built Environment Pedestrian and Crime An assessment tool that provides a framework for Bicycle Demographics communities seeking to improve their walkability. Information Walk Friendly http://www.walkfriendl Economics Recognizing that there are many ways to achieve this Center; UNC Data Collection Communities - y.org/WalkFriendlyCo Mixed Methods Education outcome, the range of Local Highway Safety Tools Community mmunitiesAssessment Environment questions in this tool attempts to capture the variety of Research Center; Assessment Tool Tool.pdf Health and Healthcare factors that affect walkability. Resources are provided Federal Highway Population throughout the tool to assist in gathering relevant data. Administration Transportation (FHWA); FedEx
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Appendix A. Health Impact Assessment Frequently Asked Questions
This Appendix provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about HIA and directs readers to relevant resources and tools in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation, if applicable. What is an HIA?
HIA is a flexible decision-support tool that the National Research Council defines as “a systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods, and considers input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. HIA provides recommendations on monitoring and managing those effects.”1 HIA is a six-step process: 1. Screening 2. Scoping 3. Assessment 4. Recommendations 5. Reporting 6. Monitoring and Evaluation
More information on the HIA process can be found in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation’s ‘HIA Process Resources’ category. What is the purpose of an HIA?
The purpose of an HIA is to inform affected communities and decision makers on the potential health effects of a proposed decision (i.e., program, policy, project or plan) at the federal, regional, state, and/or local level and support the decision-making process. Who initiates an HIA?
An HIA can be initiated by any organization, agency, or individual concerned about the potential health impacts of a proposed decision or whether health will be adequately addressed in the decision-making process. HIAs have been initiated by community residents, public health agencies, federal agencies, community advocates, academic institutions, non-health public agencies, policy makers, and more. HIAs may also be facilitated by state laws; policy, program, plan, or project-specific legislation; or environmental regulations.
1 National Research Council. 2011. Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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What topics does an HIA cover?
HIA has been used for programs, policies, plans, and projects covering a wide variety of health and non-health related topics including the environment, land use, housing, transportation, education, incarceration, employment, economics, labor, and more. Who conducts an HIA?
HIAs can be conducted by anyone. They have been conducted by nonprofit health organizations, public health agencies, non-health public agencies, community-based organizations, federal agencies, private businesses, academic institutions, community residents, and more. When should an HIA be conducted?
HIAs inform the decision-making process of a proposed decision and therefore should be conducted prospectively. HIAs should ideally occur before the program, policy, plan, or project decision is made, so that the HIA can inform the decision. How do I know whether I should conduct an HIA?
To determine whether an HIA is needed, an HIA should be screened (during the Screening Step of the HIA process) to determine whether health is already being considered in the decision, whether the HIA can adequately inform and/or influence the decision-making process, whether the timing is appropriate, and whether stakeholders have the interest and capacity to participate in the HIA. More resources and tools for screening an HIA can be found in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation primary category ‘HIA Process Resources’, subcategories ‘General HIA Information’, ‘HIA Trainings and Webinars’, and ‘Screening Step’. How long does it take to conduct an HIA?
HIA timeframes vary greatly and are highly dependent on resources available and the timeframe of the decision-making process. HIAs can range from a few weeks, for rapid HIAs that may only look at existing data and have minimal stakeholder participation, to years, for comprehensive HIAs that collect new data and have extensive stakeholder engagement. How much does it cost to conduct an HIA?
The cost of conducting an HIA also varies greatly. Human Impact Partners estimates that the cost of conducting an HIA can range from $10,000 to $150,000 depending on the rigor of the HIA. This cost is dependent on the funding and staff availability, the depth of the level of analysis, research methods employed, and the level of stakeholder engagement.
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Where can I find funding for an HIA?
A number of entities provide funding for HIAs around the U.S.:
o Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) o Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) o Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) o The California Endowment o Health Impact Project o Human Impact Partners o National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) o Blue Cross/Blue Shield o National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) o Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) o The Annie E. Casey Foundation o The Kresge Foundation o The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation o Liberty Hill Foundation o Marin Community Foundation o The W.K. Kellogg Foundation o Communities Putting Prevention to Work o Federal Transportation Authority o HUD/DOT/EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities grants, assistance, and programs What are the benefits of conducting an HIA? HIA offers a number of benefits to affected communities, the public health field, and the decision-making process. HIA benefits include:
o Empowering affected communities by engaging them in the HIA process and decisions that affect them. o Facilitating interdepartmental, interagency, and cross-sectoral collaborations and relationship and capacity building within the community. o Raising awareness of health and health-related issues among decision makers and the public. o Bringing health into decisions outside traditional health-related fields. o Promoting and protecting public health by considering the beneficial and adverse health impacts of proposed decisions. o Advancing health equity by considering impacts across the population (paying specific attention to vulnerable groups) and recommending ways to improve proposed decisions for affected groups. o Building support for positive health outcomes early in the decision-making process.
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o Providing a transparent process to inform decision-making. What challenges could I face in conducting an HIA? Challenges in conducting an HIA could include the availability of financial, time, and human resources; the availability of adequate data; working within the constraints of the decision- making timeframe; identifying vulnerable groups that could potentially be impacted; and views of HIA as a time-consuming process that slows down progress or is just another bureaucratic checklist; among others.
Who should be on the HIA team? A team of individuals should be assembled who possess expertise and knowledge in the specific fields that will be evaluated in the assessment (e.g., housing, transportation, planning, land use, etc.), as well as skills and experience in areas such as public health, communication, stakeholder engagement, and research and analysis. There should be representation from a variety of organizations and agencies, including decision-makers, community groups, advocacy organizations, public health departments, and other stakeholders.
Roles Skills Needed Team member with knowledge of the community and has access to the community social and formal networks (e.g., community leader, Community Liaison historian, member of a community representative organization, long- time resident). Team member with knowledge of basic public health principles and Public Health Researcher mediating factors that influence health (e.g., public health professional, physician, health educator). Team member who is well versed and has experience managing teams with multiple skills/fields of expertise, leading meetings and discussions, Project Leader organizing action items and establishing project goals, framework, timeline and a communication plan. Team member of advisor who has extensive knowledge and experience conducting and evaluating HIAs, including best practices and lessons HIA Technical Advisor learned (e.g., representative from Human Impact Partners, Georgia Health Policy Center, Oregon Public Health Institute, and UCLA HIA program, CDC National Center for Environmental Health). Team member(s) with experience planning and conducting research who can perform literature reviews, risk assessments, and develop test Researcher(s) research questions/hypotheses (e.g., epidemiologist, community health researcher, etc.). Team member with experience writing and evaluating scientific papers Writer/Editor and producing reports and materials for different audiences.
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Roles Skills Needed Subject Matter Expert(s) Member(s) with experience and knowledge about the specific fields of (usually members of expertise that will be evaluated in the assessment (e.g., housing, steering or advisory transportation, watershed management, ecology, engineering or committee) architecture, public and community health, etc.).
For example, an HIA evaluating an education policy may want to include as stakeholders – Board of Education members, School Board members, students, parents of students, teachers/professors, representatives from minority advocacy organizations, public health professionals, and education policy analysts.
What stakeholders should be included in the HIA? Stakeholders are individuals and organizations with a vested interest in and potentially affected by the proposed decision, including the decision makers themselves. HIAs should include as many stakeholders related to the decision as possible, especially vulnerable populations and/or their representatives. In total, the stakeholders should comprise a diverse group of participants. Diversity in the stakeholders participating in an HIA allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the community and political context surrounding the proposed decision and can help illuminate issues of concern for those affected by the decision, as well as community health and other existing conditions that may not be readily apparent to those outside the community. Examples of potential stakeholders include:
o Residents from the potentially affected community o Community representatives from community-based organizations o Community advocates and/or advocacy organizations o Decision makers o Service providers o Elected officials at the municipal, regional, state/provincial, or federal levels o Small businesses o Industry, developers, and big business o Public agencies (e.g., public health, planning, economic development) o Statewide or national advocacy organizations o Academic, learning, and research institutions o HIA consultants o School districts o Regulatory agencies (e.g., EPA)
Levels of stakeholder involvement vary from HIA to HIA, although engagement of stakeholders in each step of the HIA process is ideal. More information can be found in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation primary category ‘HIA Process Resources’, subcategory ‘Community Participation, Partnerships, and Equity’.
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How will I know whether or not my HIA had any impact? Monitoring and evaluation can help determine whether your HIA had an impact on the decision, decision-making process, and decision-making climate in general, as well as any impacts of decision implementation on health. HIA best practices include an evaluation of the HIA process (process evaluation), an evaluation of the impact the HIA had on the decision- making process and final decision (impact evaluation), and monitoring and evaluation of the health outcomes and health determinants affected by the decision (outcome evaluation). Monitoring and evaluation resources can be found in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation primary category ‘HIA Process Resources’, subcategory ‘Monitoring and Evaluation Step’.
Where can I find HIA consultants to help with my HIA project? The Regional Capacity Building Committee Working Group of the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment (SOPHIA) created a map and list of organizations providing HIA technical assistance throughout the U.S. The list can be found online at: https://sophia.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Regional-Capacity-Building-Maps.pdf.
Where can I find HIAs similar to the one I am conducting? In-progress and completed HIAs are available online on the following websites:
o UCLA HIA-CLIC: http://www.hiaguide.org/hias • This comprehensive list of in-progress and completed HIAs can be searched by keywords, sectors, pathways, methods, and health effects. Links to HIA documents are provided.
o HIA in the United States: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/multimedia/data-visualizations/ 2015/hia-map • This web tool provides a map view and list of in-progress and completed HIAs in the U.S. that users can search by organization type, decision-making level, sector, grant type, and state. Provides a general summary of each HIA and a link to any related information (e.g. HIA report, website, etc.).
Both of these websites are listed in the HIA Resource and Tool Compilation primary category ‘HIA Process Resources’.
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