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338119
Health in all policies: Transportation Sector


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Harold Kohl, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Mass transit use may contribute to physical activity participation by requiring additional travel to access and depart the stop or station.  If this additional travel is active, an additional amount of physical activity can be achieved each day. Houston Texas is expanding its light rail system by adding 15.2 miles of track and 27 stations in neighborhoods that are predominantly low income and ethnically diverse. The purpose of this four-year natural experiment is to determine if the expansion of the light rail will prospectively affect transit use and transit-related physical activity, as well as other domains of physical activity.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Evaluate the role of natural experiments in studies of physical activity and environmental change Evaluate the specific aims, study design and baseline data from the Houston TRAIN study Discuss research gaps in the field of physical activity and the built environment

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the primary researcher on this topic
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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