Making it Happen

Research informs decisions and is fundamental to better understanding issues and causal associations between health and the built environments.

Principles:

• Strengthen project or policy rationale by using research bodies to bridge the gaps between research and practice.
• Foster understanding between researchers and practitioners by working together.
• Develop tools to track associations between the built environment and health over time.
• Increased research component budgeted for in project proposals, work planning and review processes. For example, researchers provide and analyse quantifiable data on the causal links between environments and health.

 
Source: Planning Institute of Australia