Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To present national estimates regarding walking or cycling for commuting in Brazil and in 10 metropolitan regions. METHODS By using data from the Health section of 2008’s Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (Brazil’s National Household Sample Survey), we estimated how o...
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| author | Thiago Hérick de Sá Rafael Henrique Moraes Pereira Ana Clara Duran Carlos Augusto Monteiro |
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| description | ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To present national estimates regarding walking or cycling for commuting in Brazil and in 10 metropolitan regions. METHODS By using data from the Health section of 2008’s Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (Brazil’s National Household Sample Survey), we estimated how often employed people walk or cycle to work, disaggregating our results by sex, age range, education level, household monthly income per capita, urban or rural address, metropolitan regions, and macro-regions in Brazil. Furthermore, we estimated the distribution of this same frequency according to quintiles of household monthly income per capita in each metropolitan region of the country. RESULTS A third of the employed men and women walk or cycle from home to work in Brazil. For both sexes, this share decreases as income and education levels rise, and it is higher among younger individuals, especially among those living in rural areas and in the Northeast region of the country. Depending on the metropolitan region, the practice of active transportation is two to five times more frequent among low-income individuals than among high-income individuals. CONCLUSIONS Walking or cycling to work in Brazil is most frequent among low-income individuals and the ones living in less economically developed areas. Active transportation evaluation in Brazil provides important information for public health and urban mobility policy-making |
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| spelling | doaj.art-991b2ddd7f204fffa31f9de8aae4c3362022-12-21T21:43:15ZengUniversidade de São PauloRevista de Saúde Pública1518-87872016-01-0150010.1590/S1518-8787.2016050006126S0034-89102016000200222Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in BrazilThiago Hérick de SáRafael Henrique Moraes PereiraAna Clara DuranCarlos Augusto MonteiroABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To present national estimates regarding walking or cycling for commuting in Brazil and in 10 metropolitan regions. METHODS By using data from the Health section of 2008’s Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (Brazil’s National Household Sample Survey), we estimated how often employed people walk or cycle to work, disaggregating our results by sex, age range, education level, household monthly income per capita, urban or rural address, metropolitan regions, and macro-regions in Brazil. Furthermore, we estimated the distribution of this same frequency according to quintiles of household monthly income per capita in each metropolitan region of the country. RESULTS A third of the employed men and women walk or cycle from home to work in Brazil. For both sexes, this share decreases as income and education levels rise, and it is higher among younger individuals, especially among those living in rural areas and in the Northeast region of the country. Depending on the metropolitan region, the practice of active transportation is two to five times more frequent among low-income individuals than among high-income individuals. CONCLUSIONS Walking or cycling to work in Brazil is most frequent among low-income individuals and the ones living in less economically developed areas. Active transportation evaluation in Brazil provides important information for public health and urban mobility policy-makinghttp://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102016000200222&lng=en&tlng=enAtividade MotoraCaminhadaTransportesSaúde UrbanaPlanejamento de CidadesDesigualdades em SaúdeCidade SaudávelZonas Metropolitanas |
| spellingShingle | Thiago Hérick de Sá Rafael Henrique Moraes Pereira Ana Clara Duran Carlos Augusto Monteiro Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil Revista de Saúde Pública Atividade Motora Caminhada Transportes Saúde Urbana Planejamento de Cidades Desigualdades em Saúde Cidade Saudável Zonas Metropolitanas |
| title | Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil |
| title_full | Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil |
| title_short | Socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in Brazil |
| title_sort | socioeconomic and regional differences in active transportation in brazil |
| topic | Atividade Motora Caminhada Transportes Saúde Urbana Planejamento de Cidades Desigualdades em Saúde Cidade Saudável Zonas Metropolitanas |
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