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. 2016 Mar:88:150-152.
doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.12.030. Epub 2016 Jan 4.

Transport And Health: A Marriage Of Convenience Or An Absolute Necessity

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen  1 , Haneen Khreis  2 , Ersilia Verlinghieri  2 , David Rojas-Rueda  3
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Transport And Health: A Marriage Of Convenience Or An Absolute Necessity

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen et al. Environ Int. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

Background: The recent diesel scandal has again highlighted the impact that the transport sector can have on public health.

Aim: To describe the current impact of transport planning on public health.

Result: Transport is fundamental to our cities' economic and social development, but causes large health effects and impact through accidents, air pollution, noise, green space and lack of physical activity.

Conclusion: There is an urgent need to rebalance and provide better and safer infrastructures and policy support for transport, and particularly, active transport modes, building a new culture for it. A parallel transition in transport and urban planning is needed to improve, in a global and structural way, the relations between urban mobility and health.

Keywords: Accidents; Air pollution; Green space; Health; Noise; Physical activity; Transport.

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