Rutgers scholars have been at the forefront of promoting Health in All Policies (HiAP) as a collaborative approach to reducing disparities and improving the health of all communities and people by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. As part of the EAC team’s continuing HiAP efforts in New Jersey, they prepared […]
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With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders program, EAC staff are working to develop a set of health inequity indicators for New Jersey. The focus of this project is on examining “upstream” or social determinants of health. The EAC team developed a screening approach to better understand disproportionate environmental burden […]
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EAC’s Karen Lowrie and Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation Center wrote an article about the training sessions that they have conducted for professionals on Health Impact Assessment in conjunction with the Rutgers Office of Continuing Education. This “Perspectives from the Field” article is in the November 2018 issue of the Chronicles of […]
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In the Fall of 2018, EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie is leading a class of MCRP students in a studio class that focuses on Farley Towers, a senior living facility managed by the City of Elizabeth Housing Authority. Students will examine the opportunities to improve and expand outdoor areas to accommodate passive and active recreation for […]
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Karen Lowrie co-facilitated a workshop on May 9 at the Rutgers Atlantic Cape campus with Leigh Ann Von Hagen as part of the Planning Health Communities Initiative. Health Department members from four Southern New Jersey counties learned about Health Impact Assessment and Health in All Policies, in preparation for selecting projects in their counties that could benefit […]
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Karen Lowrie of EAC, together with Planning Healthy Communities Initiatives (PHCI) colleague Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation Center, conducted training in Health Impact Assessment at nine regional “A-team” meetings held at locations around New Jersey by the NJ Housing and Community Development Network during January and February of 2018. Dozens of representatives […]
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May 22, 2017 Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can be used to evaluate a proposed plan or project’s potential effects on the health of a population. HIA provides evidence-based recommendations aimed at enhancing positive health impacts and minimizing negative ones, providing an approach to the decision-making process by: Considering health outcomes such as social, economic and […]
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a fast-growing practice in the U.S. that provides practitioners and policymakers with a tool to predict the health outcomes of decisions. The National Research Council of the National Academies defines HIA as “…a systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders […]
