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Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling
The World Health Organization’s Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is a user-friendly web-based tool to assess the health impacts of active travel. HEAT, developed over 10 years ago, has been used by researchers, planners and policymakers alike in appraisals of walking an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33050184 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207361 |
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author | Götschi, Thomas Kahlmeier, Sonja Castro, Alberto Brand, Christian Cavill, Nick Kelly, Paul Lieb, Christoph Rojas-Rueda, David Woodcock, James Racioppi, Francesca |
author_facet | Götschi, Thomas Kahlmeier, Sonja Castro, Alberto Brand, Christian Cavill, Nick Kelly, Paul Lieb, Christoph Rojas-Rueda, David Woodcock, James Racioppi, Francesca |
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description | The World Health Organization’s Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is a user-friendly web-based tool to assess the health impacts of active travel. HEAT, developed over 10 years ago, has been used by researchers, planners and policymakers alike in appraisals of walking and cycling policies at both national and more local scales. HEAT has undergone regular upgrades adopting the latest scientific evidence. This article presents the most recent upgrades of the tool. The health impacts of walking and/or cycling in a specified population are quantified in terms of premature deaths avoided (or caused). In addition to the calculation of benefits derived from physical activity, HEAT was recently expanded to include assessments of the burden associated with air pollution exposure and crash risks while walking or cycling. Further, the impacts on carbon emissions from mode shifts to active travel modes can now be assessed. The monetization of impacts using Value of Statistical Life and Social Costs of Carbon now uses country-specific values. As active travel inherently results in often substantial health benefits as well as not always negligible risks, assessments of active travel behavior or policies are incomplete without considering health implications. The recent developments of HEAT make it easier than ever to obtain ballpark estimates of health impacts and carbon emissions related to walking and cycling. |
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spelling | pubmed-76005082020-11-01 Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling Götschi, Thomas Kahlmeier, Sonja Castro, Alberto Brand, Christian Cavill, Nick Kelly, Paul Lieb, Christoph Rojas-Rueda, David Woodcock, James Racioppi, Francesca Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The World Health Organization’s Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is a user-friendly web-based tool to assess the health impacts of active travel. HEAT, developed over 10 years ago, has been used by researchers, planners and policymakers alike in appraisals of walking and cycling policies at both national and more local scales. HEAT has undergone regular upgrades adopting the latest scientific evidence. This article presents the most recent upgrades of the tool. The health impacts of walking and/or cycling in a specified population are quantified in terms of premature deaths avoided (or caused). In addition to the calculation of benefits derived from physical activity, HEAT was recently expanded to include assessments of the burden associated with air pollution exposure and crash risks while walking or cycling. Further, the impacts on carbon emissions from mode shifts to active travel modes can now be assessed. The monetization of impacts using Value of Statistical Life and Social Costs of Carbon now uses country-specific values. As active travel inherently results in often substantial health benefits as well as not always negligible risks, assessments of active travel behavior or policies are incomplete without considering health implications. The recent developments of HEAT make it easier than ever to obtain ballpark estimates of health impacts and carbon emissions related to walking and cycling. MDPI 2020-10-09 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7600508/ /pubmed/33050184 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207361 Text en © 2020 World Health Organization. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organisation or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article’s original URL. |
spellingShingle | Article Götschi, Thomas Kahlmeier, Sonja Castro, Alberto Brand, Christian Cavill, Nick Kelly, Paul Lieb, Christoph Rojas-Rueda, David Woodcock, James Racioppi, Francesca Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title | Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title_full | Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title_fullStr | Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title_short | Integrated Impact Assessment of Active Travel: Expanding the Scope of the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling |
title_sort | integrated impact assessment of active travel: expanding the scope of the health economic assessment tool (heat) for walking and cycling |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33050184 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207361 |
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