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Transportation and public health : an integrated approach to policy, planning, and implementation /
Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation helps current and future transportation professionals integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning, thus supporting sustainability and promoting societal health and well-bein...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Transportation and Public Health; Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgment; 1
- Transportation and public health: An introduction; Introduction; Why focus on transportation?; Transportation safety; Motor vehicle emissions and air quality; Transportation and the built environment; Some definitions; Purpose and organization of the book; References; 2
- Dimensions of public health affected and influenced by transportation; Introduction
- Social determinants of healthTransportation and the social determinants of health; Transportation and rural public health challenges; Transportation and access to healthy food; Transportation and medical caregivers; Transportation and urban planning; Nashville's efforts to improve transportation-related social determinants of health; Summary; Discussion questions; References; 3
- Institutional frameworks: Laying the groundwork for mainstreaming public health into transportation decision-making; Introduction; The transportation public sector; The public health sector
- Roles and responsibilities of public health agenciesParticipants in the public health sector; Coming together in response to major disruptions to transportation systems and communities; International agreements that integrate social determinants of health into regulations and legal practices; Brundtland Commission; Rio Declaration on Environment and Development; Rio Declaration on Social Determinants of Health; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; UN Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought; United Nations Millennium Development Goals; Summary; Discussion questions
- Expected changes in climate climatic conditions represent new risks of unhealthy air quality and exacerbates other public h ... Transportation systems as pathogen pathways create much greater risks of runaway epidemics and spread of disease; Connected and autonomous vehicle technology will revolutionize the transportation sector and create new challenges to air q ... ; Electric vehicles, combined with automation and shared vehicle use, will fundamentally change travel behavior