Apho
West Midlands Public Health Observatory, B15 2SQ
Birmingham, WEST MIDLANDS
Business profile
Knowle West Regeneration Strategy. Building health into our plans from the start: Health Impact Assessment Workshop Report held on 21st July 2010 and produced by the Bristol Partnership Healthy Cities Group, Stephen Hewitt and Marcus Grant. Knowle West in South Bristol has a population of about 15,000 and has a strong sense of community but has high levels of deprivation, with some parts of it being in the poorest 1% nationally. Work started on the Knowle West Regeneration Strategy in September 2009. The Healthy City Group of the Bristol Partnership considered it vital that health and well-being in its widest sense is integrated into the regeneration plans. Therefore the group initiated a health impact assessment (HIA) process to review potential health impacts. The workshop looked at the wider social, economic and environmental foundations for health and wellbeing i.e. how housing, transport, employment, open space etc. impact on people's health rather than being limited to the provision of health services