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Title: Complete Streets Policy Analysis and Examination of Influence on Travel, Health, and Health Disparities
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Complete Streets policies are potentially a useful tactic for increasing rates of active travel among a variety of populations. Currently, rates of active travel are particularly low among the general population in the United States. Understanding how these policies influence travel behavior, health, and health disparities will inform future research and improve policy development. Accordingly, this dissertation aims to (1) develop and implement an appropriate checklist for examining Complete Streets policy quality, (2) identify how the presence of policies, policy language, and time since policy implementation influence the aforementioned outcomes, (3) investigate how leaders in communities with and without Complete Streets policies perceive the aforementioned outcomes. A new policy checklist was created for this study. Both this new checklist, as well as an existing checklist, were used to examine policy quality among county-level Complete Streets policies (n=52). These scores were then used to examine the association between policy quality and active travel, health outcomes, healthcare access, gathered from national datasets. Next, Complete Streets counties (n=52) were matched with control counties (n=52), to quantitatively examine differences in travel behavior, health, and healthcare access by county type, race/ethnicity, and income level. Finally, interviews . . .
Url: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/13208
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Authors: Sims, Dangaia
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Department: College of Health and Human Development
Advisor: Melissa J. Bopp
Degree: Ph.D
Publisher Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Pages: 189
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Health, Other, Population Data Science, Population Health and Health Systems
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