Using a health impact assessment framework, we estimated the population health effects
arising from alternative land-use and transport policy initiatives in six cities. Land-use …

Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-
communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low …

The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance organized the concurrent preparation of Report
Cards on the physical activity of children and youth in 38 countries from 6 continents …

Cities are interesting, dynamic, and varied places, but can also be noisy, polluted, difficult to
navigate, isolating, and crime ridden. 54% of the world's population live in cities and this …

Introduction Data on built environment (BE) and physical activity (PA) in low-and middle-
income countries is sparse. This study compared BE features, PA levels, and weight status …

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There is a growing understanding within public health, transportation engineering, and
urban planning of the mechanisms by which features of the built, natural, and social …

encouraging and enabling an active and participatory city life, many of the current concerns,
such as physical inactivity, overweight and obesity, mental ill health, exclusion of …

Yet these claims discount substantial evidence about the favourable effects of physical
activity on obesity prevention, maintenance of weight loss, body fat, and fat distribution, and …

The built environment creates a number of societal challenges experienced by citizens
today, particularly when considering factors such as physical or mental health, age or life …