Edited by
Julie Vallée, CNRS, France.
ISBN : 9781789451092
Publication Date : September 2024
Hardcover 250 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
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.
Part 1. Diffusion and Exposure Mechanisms Related to Daily Mobility.
1. Daily Mobility and the Spread of Communicable Infectious Diseases, Alexandre Cebeillac and Eric Daudé.
2. Methodological Challenges of the Cross-Analysis Between Daily Mobility, Environments and Health, Camille Perchoux.
3. Daily Mobility and Social Inequalities in Health: A Conceptual Framework and Application, Martine Shareck.
Part 2. Everyday Environments and Active Modes of Travel.
4. Walking in Everyday Life: The Built Environment and Pedestrian Insecurity, Marie-Soleil Cloutier and Karine Lachapelle.
5. The Geographical Dimension of Daily Active Mobility, Thierry Feuillet and Hélène Charreire.
Part 3. Daily Mobility and Public Health Policies.
6. A Critical Analysis of Policies Promoting Physical Activity and Active Mobility, Stephanie Alexander.
7. Rationalization of the Healthcare Provision and Mobility, Véronique Lucas-Gabrielli and Catherine Mangeney.
Julie Vallée is a research director at CNRS, France, in the Géographie-cités laboratory, and a geographer. Her research focuses on everyday mobility, urban segregation, place-based effects and social inequalities, especially in health.
