ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015
Rapid Assessment of Environmental Health Impacts for Policy Support: The Example of Road Transport in New Zealand.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Improving health and preventing cancer through a better transport system in Aotearoa/New Zealand.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2025Article
- Navigating health challenges: the interplay between occupation-imposed movement restrictions, healthcare access, and community resilience.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Impact of Transport on Population Health and Health Equity for Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Prospective Burden of Disease Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Study protocol of the European Urban Burden of Disease Project: a health impact assessment study.BMJ open · 2022Article
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- Health benefits of on-road transportation pollution control programs in China.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- A tool for assessing the climate change mitigation and health impacts of environmental policies: the Cities Rapid Assessment Framework for Transformation (CRAFT).Wellcome open research · 2020Article
- Road Environments: Impact of Metals on Human Health in Heavily Congested Cities of Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
An integrated environmental health impact assessment of road transport in New Zealand was carried out, using a rapid assessment. The disease and injury burden was assessed from traffic-related accidents, air pollution, noise and physical (in)activity, and impacts attributed back to modal source. In total, road transport was found to be responsible for 650 deaths in 2012 (2.1% of annual mortality): 308 from traffic accidents, 283 as a result of air pollution, and 59 from noise. Together with morbidity, these represent a total burden of disease of 26,610 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). An estimated 40 deaths and 1874 DALYs were avoided through active transport. Cars are responsible for about 52% of attributable deaths, but heavy goods vehicles (6% of vehicle kilometres travelled, vkt) accounted for 21% of deaths. Motorcycles (1 per cent of vkt) are implicated in nearly 8% of deaths. Overall, impacts of traffic-related air pollution and noise are low compared to other developed countries, but road accident rates are high. Results highlight the need for policies targeted at road accidents, and especially at heavy goods vehicles and motorcycles, along with more general action to reduce the reliance on private road transport. The study also provides a framework for national indicator development.
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