Description

This guide has been written to help people conduct a health impact assessment (HIA) of greenspace; whether these are greenspace policies, strategies, plans, frameworks, programmes or projects.

It:
• provides some background information on greenspace and current greenspace policy context in Scotland
• contains a review of international research evidence on greenspace and health
• suggests some questions to help apply this evidence to the context of a specific greenspace issue or proposal
• outlines how to use this evidence to do a HIA
• provides summaries of some completed HIA of greenspace
• highlights sources of information and data on greenspace