Environmental supports for walking/biking and traffic safety: Income and ethnicity disparities

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-16

  Yu, Chia Yuan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active travel; Disparity; Environmental designs; Traffic safety; Walking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; DENSITY; ETHNICITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; LAND USE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDESTRIAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; WALKING; WORKER; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ETHNIC GROUP; INJURIES; SAFETY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAFETY; SOCIAL CLASS; TEXAS; WALKING;

EID: 84904268934     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.06.028     Document Type: Article

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