Everyday Mobility and Health

Everyday mobility is neither favorable nor unfavorable to health. While it can facilitate social interactions, increase access to remote services, or encourage physical activity, it can also generate pollution, promote the spread of epidemics or cause traffic accidents. This book presents different facets of the relationship between daily mobility and health, focusing on the environments (geographical, social and political) that people live and move around in. It analyzes the role of mobility in the mechanisms of environmental exposure and diffusion, as well as the resulting health inequalities. It deals with active modes of travel (mainly walking and cycling) and the local contexts that are conducive to them. Finally, it offers a critical reading of the place given to everyday mobility in policies to combat obesity and rationalize regional healthcare provision.

Introduction xi Julie VALLÉE Part 1. Diffusion and Exposure Mechanisms Related to Daily Mobility 1 Chapter 1. Daily Mobility and the Spread of Communicable Infectious Diseases 3 Alexandre CEBEILLAC and Eric DAUDÉ Chapter 2. Methodological Challenges of the Cross-Analysis Between Daily Mobility, Environments and Health 43 Camille PERCHOUX 3. Daily Mobility and Social Inequalities in Health: A Conceptual Framework and Application 81 Martine SHARECK Part 2. Everyday Environments and Active Modes of Travel 109 Chapter 4. Walking in Everyday Life: The Built Environment and Pedestrian Insecurity 111 Marie-Soleil CLOUTIER and Karine LACHAPELLE Chapter 5. The Geographical Dimension of Daily Active Mobility 143 Thierry FEUILLET and Hélène CHARREIRE Part 3. Daily Mobility and Public Health Policies 171 Chapter 6. A Critical Analysis of Policies Promoting Physical Activity and Active Mobility 173 Stephanie ALEXANDER Chapter 7. Rationalization of the Healthcare Provision and Mobility 199 Véronique LUCAS-GABRIELLI and Catherine MANGENEY List of Authors 231 Index 233