3258.2: Monday, December 12, 2005 - 2:30 PM
Abstract #122184
Understanding the Links between our transportation policies and our health and what you can do about it
Anne P. Canby, BA, President, Surface Transportation Project, 1100 17TH Street, NW, Tenth Floor, Washington, DC 20036, 202-974-5135, acanby@transact.org
Learning Objectives:
- Provide public health practitioners and researchers a better understanding of the linkages between our health and our transportation policies.
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- Identify ways in which the public health community can support the goals of transportation reform advocates and achieve their own goals of healthier, more physically active communities.
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- Present and discuss opportunities for collaboration between the public health community and transportation reform advocates to achieve more walkable communities, that are safer, healthier and economically stronger.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the
manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.
Recorded presentation
Smart Growth, Transportation Policy and the Impact on the Environment — Lessons Learned and Future Implications
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA