Characteristics and use of urban health indicator tools by municipal built environment policy and decision-makers: a systematic review protocol

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• 作者：Helen Pineo ; Ketevan Glonti ; Harry Rutter ; Nicole Zimmermann…
• 关键词：Urban metrics ; Built environment ; Indicator ; Indices ; Policy ; Urban health ; Evidence ; Urban ; Social determinants of health
• 刊名：Systematic Reviews
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：412KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：2046-4053
• 卷排序：6

文摘

BackgroundThere is wide agreement that there is a lack of attention to health in municipal environmental policy-making, such as urban planning and regeneration. Explanations for this include differing professional norms between health and urban environment professionals, system complexity and limited evidence for causality between attributes of the built environment and health outcomes. Data from urban health indicator (UHI) tools are potentially a valuable form of evidence for local government policy and decision-makers. Although many UHI tools have been specifically developed to inform policy, there is poor understanding of how they are used. This study aims to identify the nature and characteristics of UHI tools and their use by municipal built environment policy and decision-makers.