Land use, transport, and population health: estimating the health benefits of compact cities

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10062, 2016, Pages 2925-2935

  Stevenson, Mark ^a,h   Thompson, Jason ^a,h   de Sá, Thiago Hérick ^b   Ewing, Reid ^c   Mohan, Dinesh ^d   McClure, Rod ^e,h   Roberts, Ian ^f   Tiwari, Geetam ^d   Giles Corti, Billie ^a   Sun, Xiaoduan ^g   Wallace, Mark ^h   Woodcock, James ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLING; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENGLAND; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LAND USE; LIFESTYLE; MASSACHUSETTS; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEDESTRIAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA; WALKING; CITY; CITY PLANNING; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; INJURIES; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN HEALTH;

BICYCLING; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN HEALTH; WALKING;

EID: 84996489244     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30067-8     Document Type: Review

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