The Health Impact Assessment (hereinafter referred to as HIA) is an effective method for predicting potential health impacts from decisions. Little is known about the implementation of the HIA in the Republic of Kazakhstan (further, RK). In addition, the Russian language literature has not yet been reviewed in terms of HIA-related knowledge. By conducting a literature review of enabling factors, including Russian language literature, on the implementation of the HIA and studying governance systems in RK, we aim to suggest an implementation process to implement the HIA in RK. After careful analysis of the governance system, we suggest set up of a HIA support unit under the National Scientific Center for Health Development and discuss the possible benefits. The proposed center should guide the implementation of the HIA in RK.

AlmaU School of Health Sciences Almaty Management University 227 Rozybakiev Street 050060 Almaty Kazakhstan

Caspian International School of Medicine Caspian University 521 Seifullin Street Almaty 050000 Kazakhstan

Olomouc University Social Health Institute OUSHI Palacky University Olomouc Katerinska 653 17 77900 Olomouc Czech Republic

Unit for Health Promotion Research University of Southern Denmark Degnevej 14 Esbjerg 6700 Denmark

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