Greater Manchester Health Impact Assessment on Vitamin D

Helen Turner RD

GM Programme Manager for Healthy Weight

Greater Manchester Healthy Start Group

Aims: 1. To increase the uptake of

healthy start vouchers• Training• Make Healthy Start a priority

within commissioning structures.

• Target those families that don’t present

• Promote Healthy Start to local retailers

• Develop a communication strategy to promote Healthy Start to various target groups.

2. To increase the uptake of healthy start vitamin vouchers

• By completing a HIA

What is HIA?

• A combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its’ potential effects on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. (WHO 1999)

• HIA aims to inform and influence decision- making to enhance the positive impacts of any decision and reduce (or eliminate) any negative impacts.

Health Impact Assessment• Stages in getting a HIA done• Screening• Scoping ☼• Conduct Assessment ☼• Doing a HIA• Policy Analysis ☼• Profiling of communities• Qualitative and quantitative data collection• Impact analysis• Establish priority impacts• Recommendations developed• Process Evaluation• Stages in getting a HIA done continued• Report on health impacts and policy options

• Monitoring• Impact and outcome evaluation

Aims and Objectives• Aim – to consider the health impacts of the Healthy Start vitamins with regard to Vitamin D across Greater Manchester.

• Objectives – to consider:1. The health impacts of universal supplementation of population sub groups such as: ☼ All pregnant women ☼ All women - postnatal (up to a year after birth) ☼ Children up to their 4th birthday

2. Identify potential barriers to access Healthy Start vitamin supplementation

3. Examine potential health impacts of the universal supplementation across the defined population sub groups.