Eco-RESIDE: An economic evaluation of urban design as a means of promoting physical activity

这个项目的意义在于它试图解决的健康问题和正在评估的干预措施。就与行为风险因素相关的疾病成本而言，缺乏身体活动仅次于烟草使用。在澳大利亚儿童和成人中，体育活动的减少与肥胖和超重的增加有关。人们看到的城市环境特征与体育活动水平之间的联系表明，城市规划准则可能是促进健康和实现自然资源可持续利用等其他社会目标的一种成本效益高的手段。此外，对投资于促进健康的干预措施的经济价值了解得还不够，而这个项目是最早衡量在环境一级进行干预的成本和效益的项目之一。它提供的信息对地方政府和卫生服务规划人员都非常有用。

The significance of this project lies in the health problem that it seeks to address and the intervention that is being evaluated. Physical inactivity ranks second only to tobacco use in terms of the costs of diseases associated with behavioural risk factors. Declining rates of physical activity have been associated with increasing rates of obesity and overweight in Australian children and adults. The association that one sees between features of the urban environment and physical activity levels suggests that urban planning guidelines may be a cost-effective means of promoting health and achieving other social objectives such as sustainable use of natural resources. Furthermore, not enough is known about the economic value of investing in health promoting interventions and this project is among the first to measure the costs and benefits of intervening at the environmental level. The information that it provides will be highly useful for local government and health service planners alike.