NIH R01 · 2024
Health Impacts of City-Wide Zero-Fare Bus Transit: A Natural Experiment
PROJECT ABSTRACT Wide-reaching efforts are needed to increase population levels of physical activity and healthy eating in low- income groups for obesity- and type 2 diabetes prevention/control. Low-income groups experience higher rates of obesity and diabetes than the general population and the COVID-19 pandemic has made these groups even more vulnerable to developing these preventable chronic diseases. Active transportation is an underused source of physical activity but is particularly relevant to low-income groups. A major and consistent correlate of active transportation is use of public transit, and transit users engage in 5-15 more minutes/day of overall PA that non-users. Public…
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