Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons From The Netherlands and Germany
Author(s) -
John Pucher,
Lewis Dijkstra
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.93.9.1509
Subject(s) - cycling , occupational safety and health , environmental health , injury prevention , suicide prevention , public health , poison control , kilometer , human factors and ergonomics , crash , german , geography , gerontology , medicine , demography , transport engineering , engineering , sociology , nursing , archaeology , pathology , computer science , programming language
We examined the public health consequences of unsafe and inconvenient walking and bicycling conditions in American cities to suggest improvements based on successful policies in The Netherlands and Germany.
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