What is it about?
All things physical activity, exercise, sedentary behaviour, sitting etc. Hosted in London by the International Society for Physical Activity and Health in conjunction with Sport England, Public Health England and HEPA Europe.
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Why is it important?
1100 researchers and practitioners from around the world came together to share current practice and launch the new ACTIVE Technical Package. This package aims to support countries to implement the World Health Organization led Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (2018 -2030). [http://www.who.int/ncds/prevention/physical-activity/gappa]
Perspectives
In order to meet the targets set by the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (2018-2030), we will need scaleable physical activity programs (among many other system, environment and societal level changes). We need to focus more effort on those programs which work, and how these can be done with more people. Our presentations discuss the scale-up of such programs.
Dr Matthew Mclaughlin
Telethon Kids Institute
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: 7th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, October 2018, Human Kinetics,
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2018-0535.
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Resources
Results of a systematic and theoretical approach to scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention for adolescents: ‘Physical Activity for Everyone’
Find out more about how we scaled up an intervention.
Effectiveness of a randomized controlled trial to scale up an efficacious school-based intervention to improving children's MVPA.
Find out about SCORES physical activity program.
The importance and status of global sedentary behaviour surveillance
Winning e-poster of the conference.
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