Highlights | ||
 | Quantifying the health benefits from cycling: an example from the Czech Republic | |
| Using the HEAT for cycling tool, a Czech study estimated the potential mortality savings from an increased level of cycling in the city of Pilsen. | ||
| Fifth annual meeting of HEPA Europe | |
| Bologna, Italy, 11-12 November 2009 | ||
| Quantifying the health benefits of cycling and walking: guidance and illustrative tool | |
 These products are part of comprehensive cost-benefit analyses of transport interventions or infrastructure projects | ||
| The European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA Europe) | |
 The transport programme closely collaborates with this network, aiming to achieve better health through physical activity among all people in Europe | ||
Promoting healthy and sustainable transport alternatives prevents the negative effects of transport patterns on human health. Cooperation among sectors and high-level political commitment are hence crucial to ensure that health issues are considered when transport policies are formulated.
WHO/Europe facilitates the full consideration of the implications of transport policies for health, the environment and sustainable development by:
These activities contribute to achieving the goals of the WHO European process on environment and health and of the pan-European programme on transport, health and environment (THE PEP).
European countries face the conflicting needs of transport policies. While transport has a key role in the economy, concern is increasing about the harm to health and the environment of current transport policies and about their social sustainability.
WHO/Europe cooperates with many international, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the European Commission, and the WHO Healthy Cities project.
