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This module will take a systemic health determinants approach to understanding the social, economic, and environmental impacts of transport and mobility that influence health outcomes referring to key concepts of heath economics, environmental justice, and health inequalities. It will explore the direct and indirect relationships between transport and mobility systems and health. It will discuss the strength of evidence about how different types of built environments and traffic management systems influence the way we travel and how these are associated with different health impacts which are socially distributed and drive health inequalities.

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It will explore how these health impacts vary across the life course and how they are socially patterned with respect to gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. It will discuss the evidence on how transport infrastructure and mobility services can be designed to support healthy behaviours such as active travel and the health benefits that confers and how these can be measured.Ìý It will discuss how creating transport systems that are safe, accessible, reliable and affordable enables access to work, social connectedness and connects people with community assets such as shops, schools, colleges, parks and play areas, libraries and health centres and improves life satisfaction and wellbeing.

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ÌýThis will be demonstrated by using an applied case study approach, for example looking at:

• Built environment and engineering measures to reduce road danger and casualties,
• Ultra-Low Emissions zones and congestion charging for reducing air pollution,
• Healthy and liveable streets, low traffic neighbourhoods approaches and mini-Hollands to support active travel,
• High quality and subsided public transport to improve accessibility

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It will also discuss how transport-based work (logistics and home delivery drivers and riders, public transport drivers (trains, trams, buses)) can impact the health and wellbeing of workers and impacts the wider population.

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The module will also explore the role of spatial planning and place shaping and the politics and policies around embedding health in the transport system. It will also demonstrate the importance of partnerships between health and transport directorates within local authorities and their role in delivering healthy transport and mobility systems.

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Finally, the module will provide an overview of national and international policy approaches including how transport and health are linked to Sustainable Development Goals.

Learning Outcomes

1. Ability to analyse data to enable priority setting, monitoring and evaluation of transport policies on the population’s health and well-being
2. Ability to assess the strength of evidence of effectiveness of transport interventions, programmes and services intended to improve the health or wellbeing of individuals or populations
3. Ability to make the policy/business case for transport on interventions using health, social, economic, and environmental evidence, and conversely how health interventions can be delivered through transport and mobility services.
4. Ability to actively listen, communicate and work in teams