Improving health through policies that promote active travel: a review of evidence to support integrated health impact assessment
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...One of the benefits of pedestrian-oriented urban planning such as mixing land uses, increasing density and providingwalking, cycling and transit facilities, is to offer neighborhood amenities that bring life to the streets by increasing pedestrian traffic and providing spaces for spontaneous social interactions (Appleyard, 1981; Jacobs, 1961)....
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...Further, architectural designs that provide “eyes on the street” (Jacobs, 1961) as a form of natural surveillance and natural space for social contact are shown to deter crime and reduce fear of crime (Mair and Mair, 2003), and promote physical functioning of elders (Brown et al., 2008)....
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...Further, architectural designs that provide “eyes on the street” (Jacobs, 1961) as a form of natural surveillance and natural space for social contact are shown to deter crime and reduce fear of crime (Mair and Mair, 2003), and promote physical functioning of elders (Brown et al....
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...…planning such as mixing land uses, increasing density and providingwalking, cycling and transit facilities, is to offer neighborhood amenities that bring life to the streets by increasing pedestrian traffic and providing spaces for spontaneous social interactions (Appleyard, 1981; Jacobs, 1961)....
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...…such as colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, hypertension, and weight status the shape of the dose-response relationship remains particularly unclear and may vary depending on the outcome and the population being evaluated (Haskell et al., 2007; Rankinen and Bouchard, 2002)....
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...For conditions such as colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, hypertension, and weight status the shape of the dose-response relationship remains particularly unclear and may vary depending on the outcome and the population being evaluated (Haskell et al., 2007; Rankinen and Bouchard, 2002)....
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...Health agencies generally recommend 30 min or more of moderate-intensity PA on most days of the week for good health (Haskell et al., 2007; US DHHS, 2008)....
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...On the other hand, time spent driving is a strong negative predictors of social capital (Besser et al., 2008; Putnam, 2000)....
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...Other reports have concludedmore definitive causal relationships between ambient air pollution andmortality andmorbidity outcomes, but they have not examined the specific role of traffic pollution (e.g. Brook et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2008)....
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