Boehmer Tegan K, Wendel Arthur M, Bowers Frederick, Robb Katherine, Christopher Ed, Broehm Jason E, Rose Ken, Ralph Joseph
US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS F-58, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590, USA.
J Transp Health. 2017;6:530-537. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2017.02.007. Epub 2017 Apr 22.
Transportation investments have the potential to improve health, but readily available data to guide transportation decisions that could promote health are limited. In October 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Transportation and Health Tool (THT). The tool is a resource to help transportation professionals in states and metropolitan areas access data about transportation and health in their jurisdictions and stimulate discussions on how to improve public health through transportation planning and policy. To develop the tool, a multidisciplinary team identified 190 possible data indicators. Using input from expert panel workshops and criteria that addressed data availability, geographic scale, timeliness, feasibility, validity, and topic area, the team selected 14 transportation and health indicators that covered the four priority topic areas of safety, active transportation, air quality, and connectivity. The THT contains the raw values for each indicator and a standardized score to enable comparisons. Additionally, the THT contains 25 evidence-based strategies that can help practitioners in states and metropolitan areas take action to improve health outcomes.
交通投资有改善健康状况的潜力，但用于指导可促进健康的交通决策的现成数据有限。2015年10月，美国运输部（USDOT）和疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）发布了《交通与健康工具》（THT）。该工具是一种资源，可帮助各州和大都市地区的交通专业人员获取其辖区内有关交通与健康的数据，并激发关于如何通过交通规划和政策改善公众健康的讨论。为开发该工具，一个多学科团队确定了190个可能的数据指标。利用专家小组研讨会的意见以及涉及数据可用性、地理范围、及时性、可行性、有效性和主题领域的标准，该团队选择了14个交通与健康指标，这些指标涵盖了安全、主动交通、空气质量和连通性这四个优先主题领域。THT包含每个指标的原始值和一个标准化分数，以便进行比较。此外，THT包含25项基于证据的策略，可帮助各州和大都市地区的从业者采取行动改善健康结果。
