Health impact of motorised trips that could be replaced by walking
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Health impact of motorised trips that could be replaced by walking.
BACKGROUND We aimed to quantify the number of women and men, in Catalonia, among those not achieving physical activity recommendations, making short motorized trips which could have been made on foot, and to estimate the annual economic benefit due to reducing mortality as a result of replacing one short, daily, motorized journey with walking. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Mobility data came...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cks015