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Trends in Australian children traveling to school 1971-2003: burning petrol or carbohydrates?

van der Ploeg HP, Merom D, Corpuz G, Bauman AE.  Preventive Medicine 2008;46:60–62.
The importance of physically active forms of transport for human and environmental health is well known (Dora, 1999). The rise in childhood obesity has increased the relevance of how children commute to and from school (Anderson & Butcher, 2006). Data from the UK have suggested that the proportion of children actively commuting to school has been decreasing over the years, while the proportion of children that takes the car to school has increased (Black et al., 2001). However, there are no population studies that have estimated changes in prevalence of active and inactive commuting to school over several decades based on comparable data. The objective of this study was to determine how Australian children traveled to and from school between 1971 and 2003 using four representative population surveys.
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