The Road to Health Care Parity: Transportation Policy and Access to Health Care, points to the tendency of transportation policies to exacerbate preexisting disparities in access to health care and exposure to environments that often diminish public health. 

After three decades of increases, adult obesity rates remained level in every state except for one, Arkansas, in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2013, a report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).