The Border Health Equity Transportation Study serves to evaluate the significance of various mobility/built environmental factors in the health of San Ysidro community members, with a particular focus on developing a model for integrating this understanding into typical long-range planning processes at the local and regional level.  The study seeks to elucidate a process for directly including health considerations in long-range land use and transportation planning practice. 

The analysis process developed for this study utilized partial correlations to understand the significance, direction, and strength of the relationships between mobility/built environment factors and health outcomes across San Ysidro and San Diego County, while controlling for age and income.  Results of the partial correlations analysis were used to prioritize mobility/built environment factors having the most consistently significant effect on a range of health outcomes across San Ysidro and the San Diego region.

Previous planning documents were referenced to identify a preliminary set of recommendations (for their potential to positively influence community health) related to the highest priority mobility/built environment factors.  These recommendations were vetted with community members and stakeholders to identify gaps and provide supplemental recommendations, leading to a final set of 16 focused mobility/built environment recommendations.