; (2) improve how health is considered in planning and decision-making processes; and (3) build stronger, healthier communities through the use of Health Impact Assessment. (c) Health impact assessments Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280g et seq.), as amended by section 796A, is further amended by adding at the end the following: 399V–12. Health impact assessments (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) Director The term Director means the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (3) Health impact assessment The term health impact assessment means a systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. Such term includes identifying and recommending appropriate actions on monitoring and maximizing potential benefits and minimizing the potential harms. (4) Health disparity The term health disparity means a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, or environmental disadvantage and that adversely affects groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; citizenship status