Keywords
displacement
atmospheric pollution
cities
chronic diseases
environmental education
health promotion
environmental health
public health
climate change
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Abstract
Mobility, the processes and actions of displacement of people, have great consequences in the social, economic, environmental or urban sphere. The means of motorized transport that are used for the mobility of people generate risks for the population’s health, through polluting emissions, noise, greenhouse gases or accidents. In addition, they influence the degree of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle. Together, they affect mental and physical health, and cause the development of diseases. It is for all these reasons that people and citizens must be able to choose sustainable and healthy forms of mobility, for themselves and for the population. To this end, we developed this “the pyramid of healthy and sustainable mobility” whose purpose is to provide guidelines on how to improve this behavior in daily commuting, for an improvement in environmental health. To do this, it orders and graphically graduates the forms of mobility into two main objectives, to improve sustainability and health. In addition, transcendental factors for improvement in both axes are specifically indicated.
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