Download or read book Advances in Transportation and Health written by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation and Health provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available tools needed to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies, the developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and the policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation. The book provides valuable information on how and why to take health into consideration in transport planning and policy, showing how to estimate the impacts of transport on health in planning, policymaking, education and workforce development. - Explores the latest advances on the full spectrum of connections between transport and health - Offers a "roadmap" on how transport impacts health - Includes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transport - Shows what research and practice gaps need attention - Includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers