Hi, Eloisa If allowed, I would like to share a paper written by me for the coming WCTRS conference. In this paper, I investigated the relationship between urban form and health by incorporating a comprehensive health-related QOL measure and a comprehensive set of influencing factors. To measure the health-related QOL, I adopt not only physical health, but also mental health and social health based on a SF-36 survey method. To my knowledge, I have seen any paper in transportation looking at the health condition from all these three aspects as well as a rich set of influencing factors. The methodology that I used is an interdisciplinary approach. I conducted the survey via the Internet, with respect to a sample from major Japanese cities. Best regards Junyi ZHANG <><><><><><><><><><><><> Professor, Dr. Eng. Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation Hiroshima University, 1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8529, Japan Phone&Fax +81-82-424-6919 e-mail <mailto:zjy@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> zjy [at] hiroshima-u.ac.jp Personal URL <http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hitel/members/zhang.html> http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hitel/members/zhang.html Citi_QOL <http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hitel/citi_qol_jp.html> http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hitel/citi_qol_jp.html Associate Editor, Asian Transport Studies (ATS) <http://www.easts.info/publications/journal_proceedings/ats/2010.html> http://www.easts.info/publications/journal_proceedings/ats/2010.html HICEC <http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hicec/> http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hicec/ <><><><><><><><><><><><> From: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:h+t--friends-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Eloisa Raynault Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:28 PM To: h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net Subject: [H+T--Friends] Call for content for next TRB H+T Subcommittee newsletter Greetings TRB Subcommittee Friends, As you may know, the TRB health and transportation subcommittee developed a newsletter as a way to stay up to date. See the January edition: http://www.trbhealth.org/newsletter/january2013. We're now looking for content for the next edition to be released by mid-March. Send any pertinent updates related to health and transportation (e.g., new reports, new research, upcoming conferences or events) for consideration via email by Friday March 8th to me (eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org); please do not 'reply all' to this message. Thank you, Eloisa Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street NW, Washington DC 20001 | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager | o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.