4028.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| This session examines suburban sprawl and its impact on health and the environment. It also explores smart growth strategies to address problems that accompany sprawl. Sprawl is defined as random unplanned growth characterized by inadequate accessibility to essential land uses such as housing, jobs, and public services that include schools, parks, green space, and public transportation. Sprawl has social, economic, environmental,and health consequences. Studies have shown that sprawl development exacerbates school crowding, accelerates urban infrastructure decline, concentrates poverty, creates spatial mismatch between urban workers and suburban job centers, heightens racial disparities, and negatively impacts public health. Sprawl is also associated with increased traffic, air pollution, destruction of forests and greens space, flooding, and wasted energy. Sprawl drives up transportation costs and creates dangerous streets for walking or bicycling. School sprawl makes it almost impossible for little Johnny to walk to school. Fewer than one in eight students walk or bike to school. Suburban sprawl is linked to growing obesity among youth. Sprawl also means more cars. More cars translates into more pollution. The automobile is a major contributor to urban air pollution. Ground level ozone is the primary ingredient of smog. High smog levels are associated with rising respiratory-related hospital admissions and emergency room visits. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Robert D Bullard, PhD | ||||
| You Are Where You Live: How the Built Environment Affects Travel Behavior, Lifestyle, Health, and Well-Being Don Chen | ||||
| The Costs and Consequences of Suburban Sprawl: Designing Smart Growth to Create Healthy and Just Communities Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Glenn S. Johnson, PhD, Angel O. Torres, MCP | ||||
| Urban Sprawl and Public Health Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH | ||||
| Walking and Cycling (W&C) in the WHO European Region: From health promotion to transportation policies Francesca Racioppi, Carlos Dora | ||||
| Sponsor: | Environment | |||
| Cosponsors: | Public Health Nursing | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||