Since the Lalonde Report in 1974 on ‘‘health beyond health care’’ in Canada, awareness of non-health sector determinants of health has been increasing. In 2000, at the Fifth Global Conference for Health Promotion, Mittelmark argued that ‘‘high-sounding, general calls to improve social responsibility for health are not sufficient to stimulate action.’’ He proposed health impact assessment (HIA) as a device for ensuring authorities take action in favour of healthy public policies. The subsequent development of HIA offers lessons for CRIA implementation.

Keywords: Normative and policy research; health, development, and disability; other agencies; children in other impact assessments