Public Health Interventions: Transport: OP35 The Health Impacts of Free Bus Travel for Young People in London

Phil Edwards, Rebecca Steinbach, Judith Green, Mark Petticrew, Paul Wilkinson, Anna Goodman, Alasdair Jones, Helen Roberts, Charlotte Kelly, John Nellthorp

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA14
JournalJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Volume66
Issue numberSupp 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2012

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