TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Health Interventions
T2 - Transport: OP35 The Health Impacts of Free Bus Travel for Young People in London
AU - Edwards, Phil
AU - Steinbach, Rebecca
AU - Green, Judith
AU - Petticrew, Mark
AU - Wilkinson, Paul
AU - Goodman, Anna
AU - Jones, Alasdair
AU - Roberts, Helen
AU - Kelly, Charlotte
AU - Nellthorp, John
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Interventions in transport systems have potentially far-reaching impacts on public health, but can be challenging to evaluate. In 2005, young people in London gained access to free bus travel; an intervention that has a number of potential risks and benefits to health. As transport access is linked to well-being, we might expect the policy to benefit the health of young people by reducing transport exclusion. However, health effects might also include: young people doing less walking, thus reducing levels of physical activity, but also reducing exposure to pedestrian injury risk; or being more exposed to assault as they travel further.
AB - Interventions in transport systems have potentially far-reaching impacts on public health, but can be challenging to evaluate. In 2005, young people in London gained access to free bus travel; an intervention that has a number of potential risks and benefits to health. As transport access is linked to well-being, we might expect the policy to benefit the health of young people by reducing transport exclusion. However, health effects might also include: young people doing less walking, thus reducing levels of physical activity, but also reducing exposure to pedestrian injury risk; or being more exposed to assault as they travel further.
U2 - 10.1136/jech-2012-201753.035
DO - 10.1136/jech-2012-201753.035
M3 - Article
SN - 1470-2738
VL - 66
JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
IS - Supp 1
M1 - A14
ER -