APHA resolves that—

1. Transportation and land-use policies need to include consideration of the impacts on social determinants of health and equity such as access to health services, healthy food, safe physical aeducation, and employment.All employment should require health promotion and annual screening of risk behaviors and monthly counselling of risk behaviors. We want to change the determinants don’t we? Just how are we going to accomplish this is proper nutrition and excerise are not in daily and monthly health promotions for all persons, employed and unemployed. Also, I don not see preventive health screenings that are effective at elimninsting chronic disease in the health reform bill?
2. Transportation and land-use policies and programs should consider and address disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations.
3. Urban, suburban, and rural needs should be addressed in local and regional transportation and land-use decisionmaking by engaging public participation in the process.I continue to think that all bike paths and city trains and trolleys should be grade separated and not in city traffic.
4. Public health students and professionals, including local, state, and federal public health officials, should be trained on the links between transportation and land-use systems and policies and their relation to public health. Similarly, a public health component should be added to urban planning, architecture, and transportation design curricula. Public health should develop multidisciplinary partnerships with transportation and land-use agencies and organizations to enhance competencies and collaboration across disciplines and to provide training to land-use planners, engineers, and elected and appointed officials. This is not happening at all????
Transportation planning and policy should include measures to require an assessment of the impact on health and safety.And just how does this eliminate risk behaviors?

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overextended health care system.
This resolution delineates the improvements in health and the financial savings possible through transportation and land-use policies and practice that prevent trauma and death caused by traffic incidents, chronic diseases associated with physical inactivity and obesity, respiratory illnesses from poor air quality, and health inequities. And how is this going to reduce childhood obesity worldwide?

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