Pedestrian Injuries and the Built Environment in Colombia.

哥伦比亚的行人伤害和建筑环境。

• 批准号: 7558026
• 负责人: Andres Villaveces
• 金额: $ 11.08万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-15 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7558026
• 关键词: Address; Applications Grants; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Characteristics; Cities; Code; Collaborations; Colombia; Commit; Community Services; Complex; Country; Data; Data Sources; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Development Plans; Employment; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Epidemiologic Studies; Epidemiology; Event; Foundations; Future; Goals; Health; Health Policy; Incidence; Income; Information Systems; Injury; Institutes; International; Investigation; Latin America; Lawyers; Lighting; Low income; Measures; Medical Examiners; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Modeling; Modification; Morbidity - disease rate; Natural experiment; Neighborhoods; North Carolina; Outcome; Pattern; Perception; Physical activity; Physical environment; Police; Policies; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Density; Primary Prevention; Principal Investigator; Public Health; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Safety; Sampling; Social Work; Spatial Design; System; Techniques; Testing; Time; Training; Training Activity; Transportation; Travel; Universities; Walking; Work; Workplace; career; density; design; experience; foot; high risk; international center; land use; metropolitan; mortality; neighborhood association; neighborhood safety; pedestrian injury; predictive modeling; programs; public health relevance; research and development; skills; spatiotemporal; statistics; study characteristics; tool; urban area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transportation safety is a critical issue in global public health, with the most frequent injuries in the developing world related to pedestrian injuries. Little is known about the specific risks for these injuries and much less on how these events are modulated by the environment, though some current evidence points to modifiable characteristics of the built environment. This international research development proposal involves a program of coursework, field training, strong mentorship, and research experience in an international setting to study the relationship of the built environment to pedestrian injuries. The candidate expands an existing collaboration between the primary mentor from the University of North Carolina and the primary mentor from the Cisalva Institute at the University of El Valle, Cali Colombia, to conduct a project that evaluates physical the characteristics of 20 randomly selected urban areas in Colombia to determine their association with the occurrence of pedestrian injuries in both space and time. The candidate's experience in transportation injury research and epidemiology offer a strong foundation. This work will expand his expertise in international urban design and spatial research methodologies, by engaging a committed portion of time and resources through a unique opportunity to study the complex effects of and interaction of the built environment and the occurrence of pedestrian injuries in an urban setting in Colombia. The proposed investigation will use data from the Desepaz Injury Surveillance System, an injury surveillance system created in Cali, Colombia and model in Latin America. Pedestrian injury data will be used to determine the association of the urban built environment features such as neighborhood density, neighborhood use, and roadway characteristics with fatal and non-fatal injury events using multilevel and spatiotemporal inferential techniques. The results will serve as the foundation for a subsequent grant application to evaluate the interaction between behavioral and environmental factors and the occurrence of other injuries. Consistent with the goals outlined by the Fogarty International Center, the research plan, training activities, and mentorship afforded by this K01 IRSDA will provide the candidate with unique skills to broaden his career in injury epidemiology with a focus on urban design issues while addressing a critical global health problem. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Transportation safety is a critical issue in global public health mostly in the developing world. Pedestrian injuries are the most common transport injuries but little is known about how the physical built environment modulates risks. This study aims to identify built environment risks to pedestrians in a developing country to better inform policies on urban design and planning.

描述(申请人提供)：交通安全是全球公共卫生的一个关键问题，在发展中国家，最常见的伤害与行人受伤有关。人们对这些伤害的具体风险知之甚少，更不用说这些事件是如何受到环境调节的，尽管目前的一些证据表明，建筑环境的特征是可以改变的。这一国际研究发展计划包括课程作业、实地培训、强有力的指导和国际背景下的研究经验，以研究建筑环境与行人伤害的关系。这位候选人扩大了北卡罗来纳大学的初级导师和哥伦比亚卡利埃尔瓦莱大学西萨尔瓦研究所的初级导师之间的现有合作，以实施一个项目，评估哥伦比亚随机选择的20个城市地区的物理特征，以确定它们与行人受伤在空间和时间上的发生之间的联系。应聘者在交通伤害研究和流行病学方面的经验提供了坚实的基础。这项工作将扩大他在国际城市设计和空间研究方法方面的专业知识，通过一个独特的机会投入一部分时间和资源，研究哥伦比亚城市环境中建成环境和行人受伤的复杂影响和相互作用。拟议的调查将使用Desepaz伤害监测系统的数据，这是一个在哥伦比亚卡利创建的伤害监测系统，在拉丁美洲是一种模式。行人伤害数据将被用来确定城市建成环境特征，如社区密度、社区使用和道路特征与致命和非致命伤害事件的关联，使用多层次和时空推理技术。这一结果将作为随后的赠款申请的基础，以评估行为和环境因素之间的相互作用以及其他伤害的发生。与福格蒂国际中心概述的目标一致，K01 IRSDA提供的研究计划、培训活动和指导将为应聘者提供独特的技能，以拓宽他在伤害流行病学方面的职业生涯，专注于城市设计问题，同时解决关键的全球健康问题。公共卫生相关性：交通安全是全球公共卫生中的一个关键问题，主要是在发展中国家。行人伤害是最常见的交通伤害，但人们对物理建筑环境如何调节风险知之甚少。这项研究旨在确定发展中国家行人面临的建成环境风险，以便更好地为城市设计和规划提供政策依据。