An evaluation of smart cities, healthy kids' knowledge translation work /

Muhajarine is professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan, and leads the Healthy Children research program at the Saskatchewan Popula on Health and Evalua on Research Unit (SPHERU), of which SCHK was a part. [...] Researchers received $426,000 from the Canadian Ins tutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Founda on of Canada, and the Health Research Founda on to fund this major study of the impacts of urban design on children’s health. [...] Our goal is to disseminate our results with the community at large, including ci zens, policy makers, and partners, to foster the development of healthier communi es.” Broadly, the aims of the research, as described in the ini al grant proposal to the Canadian Ins tutes of 1 Health Research, were: 1. To use the City of Saskatoon as a “case in point,” to conduct research that iden fies how developm [...] As well as providing a summary of all the KT ac vi es in SCHK, the evalua on specifically aimed to answer the following three ques ons: 1. Did the KT materials/ac vi es effec vely convey the purpose of the Smart Ci es, Healthy Kids project to the stakeholders? [...] Individuals evaluated the clarity, the order and organiza on of the content, and the usefulness of informa on found in the fact sheets.