TRBHealth May 2013

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by Ed Christopher

In the May/June Issue of Public Roads is an article that may be of interest, "How Does Transportation Affect Public Health?" This article highlights how organizations, MPOs and state transportation departments, across the country are looking at the important relationship between public health and transportation. Public Roads is a bimonthly publication of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Research, Development and Technology. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/13mayjun/05.cfm -- Ed Christopher FHWA Resource Center Planning Team 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (C)

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Re: [H+T--Friends] Transportation workers have highest obesity (Sara Zimmerman)

by Phyllis ORRICK

Interesting question, Sara. This is a SURVEY, not a study, fyi. Here's a link to their methodology page. While it doesn't say it weights by SES, they claim to have a representative sample. I'll leave the parsing to better minds than mine. Looking forward to the discussion. Phyllis http://www.well-beingindex.com/methodology.asp The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index tracks the well-being of U.S. residents throughout the year, interviewing no fewer than 500 U.S. adults nationwide each day, with the exception of major holidays. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell-phone-only status, cell-phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design. With the inclusion of the cell-phone-only households and the Spanish Language interviews, 98% of the adult population is represented in the sample. By comparison, typical landline-only methodologies represent approximately 85% of the adult population. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. Click here<http://well-beingindex.com/files/Gallup-Healthways%20Index%20Methodology%20…> to download the formal methodology and Well-Being Index research report. -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#%21/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#%21/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#%21/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#%21/trbhealth> Skype: pmorrick

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[H+T--Friends] Infographic: 4 Requirements for a Bikeable Community

by Sara Zimmerman

Hi all, In honor of bike month, we put together a nice infographic highlighting the four requirements for a bikeable community, with some examples of policies that help achieve each requirement. Please share far and wide! http://changelabsolutions.org/news/what-makes-bikeable-city We'll be coming out with a bike policy toolkit later this summer that provides a more comprehensive description of the types of policies communities can adopt to support bicycling, so stay tuned. Sara ________________________________________ Sara Zimmerman Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity ChangeLab Solutions 2201 Broadway, Suite 502 Oakland, CA 94612 510.302.3303 www.changelabsolutions.org<http://www.changelabsolutions.org> ChangeLab Solutions - formerly known as Public Health Law & Policy - is a national nonprofit creating law and policy innovation for the common good. We help transform neighborhoods, cities, and states with laws and policies that make communities more livable, especially for those with the fewest resources. The content in this message is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. ChangeLab Solutions and its projects do not enter into attorney-client relationships.

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[H+T--Friends] Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate

by Sara Zimmerman

I'm curious (or maybe dubious?) about the degree to which this effect is about occupation, as opposed to income level. Thoughts? ________________________________________ Sara Zimmerman Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity ChangeLab Solutions 2201 Broadway, Suite 502 Oakland, CA 94612 510.302.3303 www.changelabsolutions.org ChangeLab Solutions - formerly known as Public Health Law & Policy - is a national nonprofit creating law and policy innovation for the common good. We help transform neighborhoods, cities, and states with laws and policies that make communities more livable, especially for those with the fewest resources. The content in this message is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. ChangeLab Solutions and its projects do not enter into attorney-client relationships. -----Original Message----- From: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:h+t--friends-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:00 AM To: h+t--friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net Subject: H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 25, Issue 3 Send H+T--Friends mailing list submissions to h+t--friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h+t--friends-request(a)ryoko.chrispy.net You can reach the person managing the list at h+t--friends-owner(a)ryoko.chrispy.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of H+T--Friends digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Survey: Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate (Eloisa Raynault) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:13 -0400 From: Eloisa Raynault <eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org> Subject: [H+T--Friends] Survey: Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate To: <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <65911809C219C444B6DBAC3C257E45A90618C7CC(a)apha-mail.apha.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This interesting information may be of interest to you and your networks. Survey: Transportation workers have highest obesity rate. USA Today <http://mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com/mailview.aspx?m=2013052001ama&r=1726…> (5/17, Langfield, 1.71M) reported that according to a survey conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, ?transportation workers have a 36% obesity rate, the highest rate among 14 occupation groups measured by Gallup based on interviews with more than 139,000 American workers from Jan. 2 to Sept. 10, 2012. For manufacturing and production workers, 30% are obese, followed by 28% of installation or repair workers and 26% of office workers.? But, ?on the lighter end of the scale, 14% of physicians were obese, followed by 20% of business owners and 21 percent of teachers.? http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/19/bus-drivers-most-ob…

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[H+T--Friends] Survey: Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate

by Eloisa Raynault

This interesting information may be of interest to you and your networks. Survey: Transportation workers have highest obesity rate. USA Today <http://mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com/mailview.aspx?m=2013052001ama&r=1726…> (5/17, Langfield, 1.71M) reported that according to a survey conducted by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, “transportation workers have a 36% obesity rate, the highest rate among 14 occupation groups measured by Gallup based on interviews with more than 139,000 American workers from Jan. 2 to Sept. 10, 2012. For manufacturing and production workers, 30% are obese, followed by 28% of installation or repair workers and 26% of office workers.” But, “on the lighter end of the scale, 14% of physicians were obese, followed by 20% of business owners and 21 percent of teachers.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/19/bus-drivers-most-ob…

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[H+T--Friends] FW: Active travel briefings for Local Authorities

by Mindell, Jenny

I thought you’d like to see these. They’re aimed at the UK but are mostly transferable across boundaries. There are three sets of slides: one aimed at Directors of Public Health, one at Directors of Transport in local government, and one aimed at the elected members (‘Councillors’, i.e. local politicians). Many of the slides are the same but with the reasons / benefits / impacts ranked differently (health/inequalities vs congestion/sustainability vs economic arguments). Regards, Jenny From: Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence [mailto:NOO@sph.nhs.uk] Sent: 16 May 2013 16:44 To: Mindell, Jenny Subject: Active travel briefings for Local Authorities Dear Colleague The national ‘Active Travel and Health' group has produced three briefings on walking and cycling for local authorities. The briefings are in the form of short Powerpoint presentations and bring together all the latest evidence, policy and ideas on active travel. They are designed to help local authorities make the case for action to increase walking and cycling. Download active travel slide sets<http://www.noo.org.uk/slide_sets/activity> http://www.noo.org.uk/slide_sets/activity Publications may be accessed via the PHE Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence website (formerly National Obesity Observatory) www.noo.org.uk<http://www.noo.org.uk> We hope you find this resource useful. With best wishes Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence Public Health England www.gov.uk/phe<http://www.gov.uk/phe> info(a)noo.org.uk<mailto:info@noo.org.uk> | www.noo.org.uk<http://www.noo.org.uk> tel: 01865 334900 Follow us on twitter @PHE_obesity <http://www.twitter.com/PHE_obesity>

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[H+T--Friends] Public Access to Federally-Supported Research and Development Data and Publications: Two Planning Meetings

by Krishnan Viswanathan

Apologies for the cross-posting. This meeting/webcast is tomorrow and Friday and invites comments on access to data and publications and thought it might interest members of these lists.The data portion is tomorrow and the day after and the publication portion was yesterday and today. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CurrentProjects/DBASSE_082378#.UZ… Krishnan

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