{"id":152025201,"date":"2009-10-26T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=152025201"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:13:21","slug":"transportation-reform-is-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=152025201","title":{"rendered":"Transportation reform IS health care reform!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the debate over health care reform dominating the news, Transportation for America brought physicians, health policy experts and Julia Lopez, a 14-year-old who advocates for children’s health, to Capitol Hill in order to highlight the often neglected impact that transportation has on our health. <\/p>\n

In more than 35 meetings with legislators and staff, the group explained how where we live, work and play has a profound impact on the rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma and other quality of life measures. And they connected the dots to policies that can keep us healthier by reducing exposure to pollution, increasing walkability and making physical activity a normal part of our daily routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nFAST FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each year air pollution triggers over a million<\/strong> asthma attacks, more than 47,000<\/strong> cases of chronic bronchitis in adults and 540,000<\/strong> cases of acute bronchitis in children and kills 70,000<\/strong> people.<\/p>\n

Source: Transportation For America Health Fly-In Statistics 2009.
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Local Laboratories for Reform<\/strong><\/a> | 10\/16\/09 <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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When it comes to comprehensive changes in how we get around, the biggest and best changes sometimes come from the bottom up…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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California’s Supreme Court Intervenes on Transit<\/strong><\/a> | 10\/05\/09<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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When Gov. Schwarzenegger raided $3.6 billion from public transit, local advocates fought back and took their case to court…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Newt Gingrich: Let the Kids Ride<\/strong><\/a> | 10\/09\/09<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After a school in New York banned students from walking or biking to school, the former Speaker of the House took a stand…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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October 2009 Updates Transportation reform IS health care reform! With the debate over health care reform dominating the news, Transportation for America brought physicians, health policy experts and Julia Lopez, a 14-year-old who advocates for children’s health, to Capitol Hill in order to highlight the often neglected impact that transportation has on our health. In … <\/p>\n

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