The role of exposure to air pollution in the development of allergic sensitization remains unclear. We sought to assess the development of sensitization until school age related to longitudinal exposure to air pollution from road traffic.

With the growing rate of obesity, the high cost of gas and climate change, we must rethink and reshape our transportation systems and networks to promote active transportation, with public health practitioners playing a key role. 

Recent research suggests the burden of childhood asthma that is attributable to air pollution has been underestimated in traditional risk assessments, and there are no estimates of these associated costs.

A recent paper in the economics literature finds an inverse relationship between gasoline prices and obesity risk—suggesting that increased gasoline prices via higher gasoline taxes may have the effect of reducing obesity prevalence. This study builds upon that paper.

Automobile exhaust contains precursors to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter; PM_2.5), posing health risks. Dependency on car commuting also reduces physical fitness opportunities.

This resource is a policy statement that describes the goals of the Greater Washington Regional Safe Routes to School Network.

This study assessed the forecasted health impacts associated with different strategies to reduce GHG from automobiles.

Poor lifestyle behaviors, including suboptimal diet, physical inactivity, and tobacco use, are leading causes of preventable diseases globally. Although even modest population shifts in risk substantially alter health outcomes, the optimal population-level approaches to improve lifestyle are not well established.

Policies call on afterschool programs to improve the physical activity and nutrition habits of youth attending. No tool exists to assess the extent to which the afterschool program environment meets physical activity and nutrition policies.

The emerging consensus that exposure to near-roadway traffic-related pollution causes asthma has implications for compact urban development policies designed to reduce driving and greenhouse gases.

This resource is a policy statement that describes the goals of the Southern California Safe Routes to School Network.

This study compares the associations between weight status and different forms of physical activity among adolescents.

This study examines the relationship between traffic-related air pollution, air quality, and autism.

This study aimed to identify environmental determinants of the uptake of cycling after relocation.

This chart details each state’s progress on implementing the federal Safe Routes to School program. All dollar figures cited are as of June 30, 2012

This study was designed to examine whether residents living in neighborhoods that are less conducive to walking or other physical activities are more likely to develop diabetes and, if so, whether recent immigrants are particularly susceptible to such effects.

The purpose of this study was to report pilot findings on the extent to which the Ready for Recess intervention was associated with a different amount of increase in moderate to vigorous PA (MPVA) during recess and the rest of the school day between girls and boys, and between nonwhites and whites.

Previous studies have been inconclusive concerning the effect of active transport on BMI. This study investigates the association between travel mode and BMI in a large community-based sample of Danish adolescents.

A video explaining The Oklahoma Shared Use Project--a collaboration of the Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition and the American Heart Association. 

There are many ways to fund community and state-wide Safe Routes to School programs.