Who owns the roads? How motorised traffic discourages walking and bicycling

Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 369-373

  Jacobsen, P L ^a   Racioppi, F ^b   Rutter, H ^c  

^a World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe ^*  (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c National Obesity Observatory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BICYCLE; CAR DRIVING; CITY PLANNING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BICYCLING; CITY PLANNING; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; WALKING;

EID: 71749097393     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2009.022566     Document Type: Article

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