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
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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.
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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
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National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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I'm curious (or maybe dubious?) about the degree to which this effect is about occupation, as opposed to income level. Thoughts?
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Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director
National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
ChangeLab Solutions
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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.
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1. Survey: Transportation Workers Have Highest Obesity Rate
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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…
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…
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
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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