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Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

From the point of view of public health and the environment, it can be argued that people who spontaneously walk great distances display a desirable behaviour, whereas those who drive a car without any walking in public space do not. A suggested metric can ...

2015

Positive association of walking with the use of public transport in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Jean Simos

Promoting physical activity and active transport strategies are among the “best buys” for tackling the risk factors of noncommunicable diseases (WHO Global status report on noncommunicable diseases, 2010). Operationalising such insights requires policies f ...

2015

The role of health impact assessment in Phase V of the Healthy Cities European Network

Derek Pierre Christie

Health impact assessment (HIA) is a prospective decision-making aid tool that aims to improve the quality of policies, programmes or projects through recommendations that promote health. It identifies howand through which pathways a decision can impact a w ...

Oxford University Press2015

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

Energy Challenges in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler

Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer

This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...

EPFL2015

Lead selection and characterization of antitubercular compounds using the Nested Chemical Library

Stewart Cole, Ruben Hartkoorn, Edina Rita Székely

Discovering new drugs to treat tuberculosis more efficiently and to overcome multidrug resistance is a world health priority. To find novel antitubercular agents several approaches have been used in various institutions worldwide, including target-based ap ...

Elsevier2015

Reprint of: Musculoskeletal system in the old age and the demand for healthy ageing biomarkers

Martin Kussmann, Sofia Moco, Sebastiano Collino

Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic trend worldwide due to improved health and longevity. This global ageing phenomenon will have a major impact on health-care systems worldwide due to increased morbidity and greater needs for hospitalizat ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2014

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Health policy

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Positive association of walking with the use of public transport in Switzerland

The role of health impact assessment in Phase V of the Healthy Cities European Network

Brain Informatics and Health

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Energy Challenges in the Global South

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study

Lead selection and characterization of antitubercular compounds using the Nested Chemical Library

Reprint of: Musculoskeletal system in the old age and the demand for healthy ageing biomarkers

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The role of health impact assessment in Phase V of the Healthy Cities European Network

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Brain Informatics and Health

Positive association of walking with the use of public transport in Switzerland

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Energy Challenges in the Global South

Lead selection and characterization of antitubercular compounds using the Nested Chemical Library

Reprint of: Musculoskeletal system in the old age and the demand for healthy ageing biomarkers

Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study