Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

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  • Description: To implement effective non-communicable disease prevention programmes, policy makers need data for physical activity levels and trends. In this report, the authors describe physical activity levels worldwide with data for adults (15 years or older) from 122 countries and for adolescents (13—15-years-old) from 105 countries.
  • Type: Report : None

    • Relationships

  • Relates To:
  • Report : The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health
  • Report : Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world
  • Report : Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?
  • Report : The implications of megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation for changes in global physical activity
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  • Collection : ChiMat Reports
  • Collection : Obesity: Reports

  • Author


  • Dr Pedro C Hallal PhD, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

    • Publishing

  • Published by: The Lancet
  • Published date: Wednesday, 18th July 2012 00:00:00

    • Subject

  • Keywords (National Public Health Language):
  • ADOLESCENT
  • ADULTS
  • AGE GROUPS
  • DATA
  • DISEASES
  • HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH PROMOTION
  • HEALTHCARE (POLICY)
  • INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR
  • INFORMATION
  • MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
  • OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS
  • PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
  • POLICY
  • POLICY MAKERS
  • PREVENTION
  • PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
  • PROGRAMMES
  • PROJECTS
  • REGENERATION (POLICY)
  • TIME
  • TRENDS
  • WIDER HEALTH (POLICY)
  • WORKING AGE ADULT
  • YOUNG PEOPLE
  • Category (Government Category List):
  • DISEASES
  • PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
  • YOUNG PEOPLE

    • Other

  • Source: The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9838, Pages 247 - 257, 21 July 2012 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60646-1

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