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Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

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Climate change mitigation in transport should benefit public health substantially and policies to increase the acceptability, appeal, and safety of active urban travel, and discourage travel in private motor vehicles would provide larger health benefits than would policies that focus solely on lower-emission motor vehicles.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2009-12-05. It has received 1013 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Climate change mitigation.

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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compared efforts to green US and Chinese cities and found that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly white and more affluent communities.
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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.

Physical Activity 3 Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world

TL;DR: A review of physical activity interventions, published between 2000 and 2011, and identifi ed eff ective, promising, or emerging interventions from around the world are recommended in this paper, where the informational approaches of community-wide and mass media campaigns, and short physical activity messages targeting key community sites are recommended.
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Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030

TL;DR: These projections represent a set of three visions of the future for population health, based on certain explicit assumptions, which enable us to appreciate better the implications for health and health policy of currently observed trends, and the likely impact of fairly certain future trends.
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Compendium of physical activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities.

TL;DR: An updated version of the Compendium of Physical Activities, a coding scheme that classifies specific physical activity (PA) by rate of energy expenditure, is provided to enhance the comparability of results across studies using self-reports of PA.
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World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention

TL;DR: This paper is a synopsis of a major report by the WHO which collates information on crashes worldwide and summarises the key findings and the recommendations of the report.
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Life between buildings: Using public space

Jan Gehl
TL;DR: The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period, and pointed to the life between buildings as a dimension of architecture that needs to be carefully treated as mentioned in this paper.
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