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Data on Healthy Community Design
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November 2015
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Source: Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet Series
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Description:Healthy community design can increase physical activity levels. Less than half of U.S. adults meet the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Less than 3 in 10 high school students get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Community and street scale design interventions that improve walking and bicycling infrastructure lead to increases in physical activity. This could reduce the estimated annual medical cost of obesity ($147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars). Walking is the most commonly reported form of physical activity, but a growing proportion of roadway deaths involve pedestrians. Design interventions to improve transportation systems can both increase physical activity and help improve safety. 43% of all vehicle trips are for distances of 3 miles or less.4 Thus, the opportunity to increase physical activity by walking and bicycling is huge.
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