Open AccessAre cars the new tobacco?
Author(s) -
M. Joanne Douglas,
Stephen Watkins,
Dermot Gorman,
Martin Higgins
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr032
Subject(s) - public health , harm , business , severance , environmental health , public transport , sustainability , political science , medicine , engineering , transport engineering , ecology , nursing , biology , law
Public health must continually respond to new threats reflecting wider societal changes. Ecological public health recognizes the links between human health and global sustainability. We argue that these links are typified by the harms caused by dependence on private cars.
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