scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies as a Path to Healthy Cities—The Case Study of LMA, Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Louro ◽  
Nuno Marques da Costa ◽  
Eduarda Marques da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable development has become the basis of several worldwide policies over the last few decades, and its role will continue to shape policies for decades to come, especially those that are focused on urban mobility. At the same time, urban mobility is included in the framework of the Healthy Cities movement. In this context, using the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), Portugal, as the study area, this article intends to answer the following research question: are sustainable urban mobility policies contributing to healthy cities? Urban mobility planning and public health instruments were compared with the discourses and practices of those responsible for the implementation of urban mobility policies and Healthy Cities projects. The results reveal that a large number of responses proposed in the mobility planning instruments are, to some extent, related to the principles of healthy cities. Also, while municipal agents tend not to consider the inclusion of those principles, they instead incorporate the concepts of sustainable development. Nevertheless, we found that both approaches overlap the policy directions of healthy cities. On the other hand, public health policies and Healthy Cities projects presented a scarce number of references to its interventions in the urban mobility domain and mainly focused on the promotion of soft modes. It is concluded that, in the case of the observed municipalities of the LMA, the healthy cities framework is greatly benefited by the inclusion of sustainable development principles in all policies, especially those for urban mobility.

scholarly journals Urban Mobility and City Logistics – Trends and Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Rezende Amaral ◽  
Ivana Šemanjski ◽  
Sidharta Gautama ◽  
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
City Logistics ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Travel Times ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Goods And Services

Improving urban mobility is crucial to the sustainable development of a city. Well-managed movement of individuals, goods, and services is essential to increase citizens’ welfare, not only by reducing travel times and congestion levels, but also by minimizing air pollution, noise, accidents, etc. To achieve the desired results, the objectives and scope of the optimization efforts have become broader in recent years. Instead of focusing only on the flows and on the network itself, research and projects have connected various areas of economy to traffic management, such as public health and logistic optimization. In this work we discuss the interconnections between urban mobility and city logistics, and present a case study showing how the mobility plan implemented in Ghent (Belgium) in April 2017 affected its logistic system.

scholarly journals Waves of mental health Demands during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Jorge Sant´Ana Honorato ◽  
André Luiz Machado das Neves ◽  
Munique Therense ◽  
Gizelly de Carvalho Martins ◽  
Vivian Silva Lima Marangoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Demands ◽  
To Come

Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic is playing a significant role in public health policies around the world. Mental health is one. Either in supporting the maintenance of isolation or dealing with demands, which may come from the general population and health professionals. This work presents a compilation of data obtained by clinical psychologists during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. Through searches on social media with #Covid19 and #MentalHealth and the exchange of information on networks of professionals, it was possible to compile and group the main psychological symptoms presented during isolation. Information was clustered according to the period it appeared, in order to guide future situations. Moreover, to prepare a group of clinical psychologists to provide online assistance. Prevention must be the key to deal with the mental health catastrophe that there is to come.

scholarly journals Interventions to Promote an Integrated Approach to Public Health Problems: An Application to Childhood Obesity

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Marie Hendriks ◽  
Jessica S. Gubbels ◽  
Nanne K. De Vries ◽  
Jaap C. Seidell ◽  
Stef P. J. Kremers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Experts stress the need to bring the childhood obesity epidemic under control by means of an integrated approach. The implementation of such an approach requires the development of integrated enabling policies on public health by local governments. A prerequisite for developing such integrated public health policies is intersectoral collaboration. Since the development of integrated policies is still in its early stages, this study aimed to answer the following research question: “What interventions can promote intersectoral collaboration and the development of integrated health policies for the prevention of childhood obesity?” Data were collected through a literature search and observations of and interviews with stakeholders. Based on a theoretical framework, we categorized potential interventions that could optimize an integrated approach regarding children's physical activity and diet. The intervention categories included education, persuasion, incentivization, coercion, training, restriction, environmental restructuring, modeling, and enablement.

scholarly journals Population simulations of COVID-19 outbreaks provide tools for risk assessment and continuity planning

JAMIA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Peng ◽  
Rowland W Pettit ◽  
Christopher I Amos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Robustness Analysis ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Continuity Planning ◽  
Quantitative Estimates ◽  
Community Infection

Abstract Objectives We developed COVID-19 Outbreak Simulator (https://ictr.github.io/covid19-outbreak-simulator/) to quantitatively estimate the effectiveness of preventative and interventive measures to prevent and battle COVID-19 outbreaks for specific populations. Materials and methods Our simulator simulates the entire course of infection and transmission of the virus among individuals in heterogeneous populations, subject to operations and influences, such as quarantine, testing, social distancing, and community infection. It provides command-line and Jupyter notebook interfaces and a plugin system for user-defined operations. Results The simulator provides quantitative estimates for COVID-19 outbreaks in a variety of scenarios and assists the development of public health policies, risk-reduction operations, and emergency response plans. Discussion Our simulator is powerful, flexible, and customizable, although successful applications require realistic estimation and robustness analysis of population-specific parameters. Conclusion Risk assessment and continuity planning for COVID-19 outbreaks are crucial for the continued operation of many organizations. Our simulator will be continuously expanded to meet this need.

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