{"id":10225,"date":"2012-11-24T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.sph.sc.edu\/imph\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:45:17","slug":"a-health-impact-assessment-hia-of-a-proposed-road-diet-and-re-striping-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imph.org\/a-health-impact-assessment-hia-of-a-proposed-road-diet-and-re-striping-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of a Proposed \u201cRoad Diet\u201d and Re-Striping Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) worked with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)<\/a> to manage a project funded by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO)<\/a> to support capacity building for Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) in South Carolina. As part of the capacity building process, IMPH spearheaded the first HIA in South Carolina and partnered with DHEC, Partners for Active Living<\/a>, the Spartanburg Area Transportation Study (SPATS)<\/a>, and the Berkeley\/Charleston\/Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG)<\/a>. The HIA examined the potential health impacts of the proposed re-striping and \u201croad diet\u201d of a downtown Spartanburg arterial road, Daniel Morgan Avenue. A road diet is a technique to reduce the number of lanes on a roadway to provide safe space for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n