Australian Urban Design Research Centre, School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Perth 6009, Australia.
Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jul 10;16(14):2448. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16142448.
The translation of research into tangible health benefits via changes to urban planning policy and practice is a key intended outcome of academic active-living research endeavours. Conversely, policy-makers and planners identify the need for policy-specific evidence to ensure policy decisions and practices are informed and validated by rigorously established evidence. In practice, however, these two aspirations rarely meet and a research-translation gap remains. The RESIDE project is a unique longitudinal natural experiment designed to evaluate the health impacts of the 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' planning policy, which was introduced by the Western Australian Government to create more walkable suburbs. This commentary provides an overview and discussion of the policy-specific study methodologies undertaken to quantitatively assess the implementation of the policy and assess its active living and health impacts. It outlines the key research-translation successes and impact of the findings on the Liveable Neighbourhoods policy and discusses lessons learnt from the RESIDE project to inform future natural experiments of policy evaluation.
通过改变城市规划政策和实践将研究转化为切实的健康效益，是积极生活学术研究工作的一个主要预期成果。相反，政策制定者和规划者认识到需要有针对性的政策证据，以确保政策决策和实践是明智的，并得到严格确立的证据的验证。然而，实际上，这两个愿望很少能实现，研究转化之间仍然存在差距。RESIDE 项目是一个独特的纵向自然实验，旨在评估“宜居社区”规划政策的健康影响，该政策是由西澳大利亚政府推出的，旨在创建更多适合步行的郊区。本评论概述并讨论了为定量评估政策的实施情况并评估其积极生活和健康影响而采用的具体政策研究方法。它概述了关键的研究转化成功，并讨论了研究结果对宜居社区政策的影响，以及从 RESIDE 项目中吸取的经验教训，为未来的政策评估自然实验提供信息。
