Use of science to guide city planning policy and practice: how to achieve healthy and sustainable future cities

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10062, 2016, Pages 2936-2947

  Sallis, James F ^a   Bull, Fiona ^b   Burdett, Ricky ^c   Frank, Lawrence D ^d   Griffiths, Peter ^c   Giles Corti, Billie ^e   Stevenson, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CITY PLANNING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYCLING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SCIENCE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WALKING; AIR POLLUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXERCISE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR POLLUTION; BICYCLING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING; SCIENCE; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

EID: 84996538861     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30068-X     Document Type: Review

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