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- Title: Active Transportation Environments Surrounding Canadian Schools (Quantitative Research) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 287 KB
Description
Active transportation refers to using walking, bicycling or other human-powered modes of transportation for practical purposes such as commuting. (1) For children and youth, travelling to school represents an opportunity to engage in active transportation and to increase their overall physical activity. However, as recently reviewed, data from several countries indicate that the proportion of children who walk or bicycle to school has decreased in recent decades. (2) Cross-national comparisons also indicate that Canadian children are less likely to actively commute to school by comparison to other countries. For instance, while more than half of children from Australia, Scotland, England, Russia, and Sweden usually walk or bicycle to school, (2) regional data from Ontario and Prince Edward Island suggest that only one third of Canadian children do so. (3) These are troubling statistics given the medical, economic and environmental benefits associated with active transportation. (4-9) From a public health perspective, increased active transportation could help address the prevalence of obesity and related chronic illnesses. (5,6,9-12) The decision to engage in active transportation is complex and represents the joining of many factors, including the built environment. (4,5) The built environment refers to our human-made surroundings. Several built environment features are correlated with active transportation, including the speed and connectivity of roads. (5,10,11,13-18) Roads with high speed limits and roads that are poorly connected can make it unsafe and inefficient (i.e., long travel distances) for people to engage in active transportation. (5,10,11,13-18)
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