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This resource discusses public transportation as a strategy to reduce healthy inequity. This policy brief details how public transportation options can improve health and health equity by reducing traffic crashes and air pollution, increasing physical activity, and improving access to medical care, healthy food, vital services, employment, and social connection. The brief explains how public transportation is funded, a few interventions that align transportation and public health goals, as well as guidance for future work.
Resource Details
- Population: Adults Aged 65 and Older|Black or African American|People Experiencing Poverty|Youth and Young Adults
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Community
- Topics of Practice: Policy Change/ Development
- Outcomes of Interest: Advancing Racial Equity|Reduction of Health Disparities
- Level of Evidence: Emerging
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
- Social Determinants of Health: Neighborhood and Built Environment
- Outside of US: No