Community Vision and Interagency Alignment: A Community Planning Process to Promote Active Transportation

Promoting active community environments through land use and transportation planning.

PURPOSE To examine the role of land use and transportation plans as policy instruments for promoting active community environments. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using multilevel models to examine whether active community environment scores were associated with leisure and transportation-related physical activity (PA) and whether associations varied by household income. SETTING 67 North C...

altVerto: Using Intervention and Community to Promote Alternative Transportation

We seek to motivate drivers who regularly use webbased local and mapping services and have access to viable alternative transit methods — such as public transportation, carpooling, walking or bicycling — to use these alternatives instead of driving alone. altVerto works with users’ existing habits to intervene during trip planning, and then sustains long-term positive behavior through progress ...

Opportunities for integrating public health and urban planning approaches to promote active community environments.

The growing emphasis on promoting environmental change as a means to increase physical activity has motivated conversation and collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the fields of public health and urban planning. Although these fields share similar objectives, their methodological approaches for examining the association between the environment and behavior often differ in sign...

People Attitudes and Perceptions to the Urban Landscape Planning in Niro Daryaee Edged Community of Tehran

Community Health Assessment to Identify Problems and Develop Operational Plans to Promote Health in the Soufian District

Background and Aim: The promotion of the health of the members of a society is based on the assessment of the situation of that society. This study was conducted in the Soufian district of Shabestar city with the aim of identifying and prioritizing its problems and needs with the direct participation of the people. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the Sufian...