Table 2 Pre-existing conditions and components of HiAP

1. Supportive context with:

• political will

• legal backing

• governance structures and processes for intersectoral communication and implementation

2. Resources and skills to:

• analyze impacts of major policies and policy proposals from the health perspective

• communicate and negotiate across sectors

• implement policy decisions

• follow up policies’ impacts on determinants of health, and their distribution

3. Information on:

• health situation and causes of ill-health, including distributional data on health inequities

• potential health threats and exposures

• effective policies/interventions from the health perspective, policy trends and proposals being developed across sectors, policy processes and actors beyond the health sector involved

Source: extracted from Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland, 2013 [19]

1. Establish the needs and priorities for HiAP;

2. Frame planned action;

3. Identify supportive structures and processes;

4. Facilitate assessment and engagement;

5. Ensure monitoring, evaluation and reporting;

6. Build capacity. Examples of HiAP indicators include participation of actors (by type, sectors or level), changes in organizational structures and culture (e.g. interministerial or inter-departmental committees), opportunities for joint actions, and willingness to share information and expertise.

Source: HiAP by WHO’s HiAP Framework for Country Action [20]