The enhanced knowledge translation and exchange framework for road safety: a brief report on its development and potential impacts.
Knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) can enable evidence-informed road safety policy and practice by reducing the gap between what is known to be effective and what actually occurs. A quality improvement project, undertaken within a government policy frame, was implemented in 2015 to produce an enhanced KTE framework for road safety (the framework). Information was collected from 35 road safety stakeholders in the UK, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Thirteen KTE facilitators were identified that covered research funding and production, the expertise of knowledge users and dissemination practices. The framework was subsequently developed, which separated facilitators seen as essential for a KTE system, from others perceived as aspirational due to their lesser influence and the considerable time and resources required for their implementation. The framework provides a heuristic device to enable policy agencies to holistically assess and improve current KTE systems for road safety, to encourage evidence-informed policy and practice.
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Reece
R
Hinchcliff
Transport and Road Safety Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Teresa
T
Senserrick
Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Joanne
J
Travaglia
Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
David
D
Greenfield
The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Rebecca
R
Ivers
D000056:Accident Prevention; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004779:Environment Design; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011050:Policy Making; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology