Active Transportation: Making the Link From Transportation to Physical Activity and Obesity

Nov 19, 2009

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Highlights findings on how public transit use and walking or biking to school raise physical activity levels, lower obesity rates, and reduce costs and how transportation infrastructure investments and awareness programs promote physical activity.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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English

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North America / United States

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Title: Active Transportation: Making the Link From Transportation to Physical Activity and Obesity
Publication date 2009-11-19
Publication Year 2009
Copyright holder(s) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Geographical Focus North America / United States
Keywords active living , american journal , preventive medicine , RESE , wood johnson foundation
Document type Issue/Policy Brief
Language English
URL: https://www.issuelab.org/resource/active-transportation-making-the-link-from-transportation-to-physical-activity-and-obesity.html
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