Browsing by Author "James, Peter"
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A Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Bill to Decrease Speed Limits on Local Roads in Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
James, Peter; Ito, Kate; Banay, Rachel Frances; Buonocore, Jonathan James; Wood, Benjamin; Arcaya, Mariana C (MDPI AG, 2014)Decreasing traffic speeds increases the amount of time drivers have to react to road hazards, potentially averting collisions, and makes crashes that do happen less severe. Boston’s regional planning agency, the Metropolitan ... -
A Health Impact Assessment of Proposed Public Transit Service Cuts and Fare Increases in Boston, Massachusetts
James, Peter; Ito, Katherine; Buonocore, Jonathan James; Levy, Jonathan Ian; Arcaya, Mariana C (MDPI, 2014-06-13)Transportation decisions have health consequences that are often not incorporated into policy-making processes. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process that can be used to evaluate health effects of transportation ... -
A Health Impact Assessment of Proposed Public Transportation Service Cuts and Fare Increases in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.)
James, Peter; Ito, Kate; Buonocore, Jonathan J.; Levy, Jonathan I.; Arcaya, Mariana C. (MDPI, 2014)Transportation decisions have health consequences that are often not incorporated into policy-making processes. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process that can be used to evaluate health effects of transportation ... -
Neighborhood Self-Selection: The Role of Pre-Move Health Factors on the Built and Socioeconomic Environment
James, Peter; Hart, Jaime E.; Arcaya, Mariana C.; Feskanich, Diane; Laden, Francine; Subramanian, S.V. (MDPI, 2015)Residential self-selection bias is a concern in studies of neighborhoods and health. This bias results from health behaviors predicting neighborhood choice. To quantify this bias, we examined associations between pre-move ... -
Residential Greenness and Birthweight in the State of Massachusetts, USA
Fong, Kelvin; Coull, Brent; Koutrakis, Petros; Laden, Francine; Schwartz, Joel; James, Peter (MDPI AG, 2018-06-12) -
Using MapMyFitness to Place Physical Activity into Neighborhood Context
Hirsch, Jana A.; James, Peter; Robinson, Jamaica R. M.; Eastman, Kyler M.; Conley, Kevin D.; Evenson, Kelly R.; Laden, Francine (Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)It is difficult to obtain detailed information on the context of physical activity at large geographic scales, such as the entire United States, as well as over long periods of time, such as over years. MapMyFitness is a ...