4022.0 Transportation & Active Transport to Promote Healthy Communities

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 8:30 AM
Oral
Session Objectives: • Identify strategies that can be used to engage key stakeholders, elected officials and high-level leadership in health planning and development for policy, systems, and environmental changes • Discuss how policies and urban planning decisions that support active transportation could promote healthier lifestyles • Describe structural challenges and opportunities for building organizational collaborations to promote the development of policies and infrastructure to support active living communities
Moderator:
Suparna Navale

8:30 AM
Crossing Boundaries for Health: Effective Planning and Policy Development for Active Living
S. Elizabeth Ford, MD, MBA and Andrew Baker
     
  
8:50 AM
Active Transport is Associated with Lower BMI in Adults with Low Levels of Non-Active-Transport-Related Physical Activity
Gregg Furie, MD, Rani A. Desai, MPH, PhD and Mayur M. Desai, PhD, MPH
     
9:10 AM
Branding Transportation as Public Health
Karyn Warsow, MS, MPH, DrPH Student, Stephen Mayer, PhD, PE, Tony DeLucia, PhD, Neil Gray, Robert Felt, Priti Irani, MS and Ijeoma Nwachuku, PhD, MPH
     
9:30 AM
Assessing the development of state active living promotion efforts through network analysis
Vanessa Buchthal, MSPH, Livia Iskandar, MSc, Nicole Crawford, MPH and Jay Maddock, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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