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Here’s a shout out to Dick Jackson (Richard Joseph Jackson, MD. MPH, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health) who has produced a television program: “Public Space/Public Health: How the built environment impacts our health.” Contact your local PBS station if you’d like to see it locally!
The program offers a challenging look at how our built environment impacts our health, and what changes we must make to improve the quality of life for everyone.
For example, did you know:
- Typical American families earn in real dollars what they earned in the 1970s, but we spend much more now on motorized transportation.
- It now costs the average adult $7,000 per year to own, maintain, insure, and drive a car. Many drivers must choose between health insurance and driving to work.
- From 1982 to 2000, the average number of hours stuck in urban highway traffic delay increased from 16 to 62 hours per person, per year.
- Americans now work more hours than people in any other major industrial nation in the world.
And on top of everything else, he’s talking about these issues in one of the most automobile-centric, individual-focused, communities on earth - Los Angeles!
