Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2017 Oct;37(10):357-362. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.37.10.06.
The Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario (APHEO) Core Indicators Work Group standardizes definitions and calculation methods for over 120 public health indicators to enhance accurate and standardized community health status reporting across public health units in Ontario. The Built Environment Subgroup is a multi-disciplinary group made up of planners, researchers, policy analysts, registered dietitians, geographic information systems (GIS) analysts and epidemiologists. The Subgroup selected and operationalized a suite of objective, standardized indicators intended to help public health units and regional health authorities assess their community retail food environments. The Subgroup proposed three indicators that use readily available data sources and GIS tools to characterize geographic access to various types of retail food outlets within neighbourhoods in urban settings. This article provides a status report on the development of these food environment indicators.
安大略省公共卫生流行病学家协会(APHEO)核心指标工作组对 120 多个公共卫生指标的定义和计算方法进行了标准化,以增强安大略省各公共卫生部门对社区健康状况的准确和标准化报告。建筑环境小组是一个多学科小组,由规划师、研究人员、政策分析师、注册营养师、地理信息系统(GIS)分析师和流行病学家组成。该小组选择并实施了一套客观的、标准化的指标,旨在帮助公共卫生部门和区域卫生当局评估其社区零售食品环境。该小组提出了三个指标,这些指标利用现成的数据来源和 GIS 工具来描述城市社区内各种类型零售食品店的地理可达性。本文提供了这些食品环境指标发展情况的最新报告。