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Examining ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters' health, wellbeing and sustainable development

2018-03-14

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Active transportation and physical activity is a major remedy to health-related problems in our society. According to the World Health Organization, the lack of physical activity is one of the leading risk factors for global mortality as well as health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular complications and other diseases that are threatening public health. To reduce the health risks of physical inactivity, ac...

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Literature Corpus work: fdebc188-ec08-5c83-b168-03b4e5730442
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26690v1

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