Equity Focused Health Impact Assessment of the ACT Health Promotion Board Community Funding Program
Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE) and Healthpact
Healthpact (the ACT Health Promotion Board) have a strong commitment to evidence based practice and agreed to undertake an EFHIA of the Community Funding Program (CFP) to: •
- assess the potential health inequalities impact of the CFP in the ACT; and •
- identify how the equity focus of the program might be strengthened.
An intermediate and retrospective EFHIA of the CFP was undertaken by the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation (CHETRE) in collaboration with the Healthpact secretariat and a Board member. Information on potential health inequalities impacts was collected through: a literature review on health promotion and health inequalities; key informant interviews; a workshop with potential applicants and consumers; and content analysis of the processes for the 2003/2004 CFP funding round.