Safety

Distance of walking in childhood and femoral bone density etc

Premenopausal women were asked how many kilometers per day they had walked to school and back, in each grade of primary school. Walking distance was not associated with spinal bone density.
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Safekids Community - Falls and Pedestrian Safety Checklist

A checklist for local authorities focusing on the role of the local government in protecting and promoting child pedestrian safety and falls prevention
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Travelwise 4 School (Auckland)

Auckland City\'s Travelwise 4 School programme aims to create travel alternatives for school kids other than being dropped off by car, and ultimately reduce school-related travel congestion and safety issues.
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Slip, trip and fall accidents occurring during the delivery of mail

This study sought to identify causal factors for slip, trip and fall accidents occurring during the delivery of mail.
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Pounding the pavement (Oklahoma)

Presents information on the results of a survey conducted at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater on the minimum standards of walking recommended for good health among college students in 2004.
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Pedestrian exposure to air pollution along a major road etc

Pedestrian exposure to PM 2.5, the loss of reflectance (‘blackness’) of the PM 2.5 filters, ultrafine particle counts and carbon monoxide (CO) was investigated along a major r
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Active commuting to and from school and BMI in elementary school children etc (abstract)

United States National Health Objectives include increasing the proportion of trips made by walking to and from school for children who live within 1.6 km to 50%. The purpose of this objective is to increase the level of physical activity among children.
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Active commuting to school: an overlooked source of childrens physical activity

The assessment and promotion of childrens healthful physical activity is important: (i) to combat the international obesity epidemic that extends to childhood; and (ii) to establish an early habit of lifestyle physical activity that can be sustained into adolesce
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Omission of active commuting to school and the prevalence of childrens health-related physical activ

the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Study Active commuting to school by walking or bicycle is a potential source of continuous moderate activity for children that has bee
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