corporate interests, oftentimes in detriment of public health. Physical activity and sports are universally acknowledged for providing an opportunity to promote and encourage healthy behaviors; yet a range of unhealthy products have been promoted through sport and physical activity sponsorship. To date
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Physical Activity Promotion as a Means to Foster Human and Planetary Health: The Need to Avoid Potential Conflicts of Interests With Unhealthy Commodity Industries
Alejandra Jáuregui
Healthy Active Aging Can Help Urban Populations Be More Resilient to Changing Environments
Ruth F. Hunter and Ione Avila-Palencia
. Watts N , Adger WN , Agnolucci P . Health and climate change: Policy responses to protect public health . Environ Risques Sante . 2015 ; 14 ( 6 ): 466 – 468 . doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60854-6 13. Vardoulakis S . Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2012-Current Evidence
Relevance of Life Course Epidemiology for Research on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior
Gregore Iven Mielke
the lifespan is important for preventing diseases. In addition, if the accumulation of physical activity is important irrespective of timing, public health messages could be tailored to consider the broad saga of an individual’s physical activity. Furthermore, this could also mean that periods of
Routledge Handbook of Adapted Physical Education
Willie Leung and Jeffrey A. McCubbin
positive impact on the teaching and learning environment, there remains much to learn if the field is to make a lifelong impact on the participants in K–12 settings. The last two chapters extend the research frame to include motor competence, including infant and toddler motor development, and public
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Clustering: Segmentation to Optimize Active Lifestyles
Stephen Zwolinsky, James McKenna, Andy Pringle, Paul Widdop, Claire Griffiths, Michelle Mellis, Zoe Rutherford, and Peter Collins
Background:
Increasingly the health impacts of physical inactivity are being distinguished from those of sedentary behavior. Nevertheless, deleterious health prognoses occur when these behaviors combine, making it a Public Health priority to establish the numbers and salient identifying factors of people who live with this injurious combination.
Methods:
Using an observational between-subjects design, a nonprobability sample of 22,836 participants provided data on total daily activity. A 2-step hierarchical cluster analysis identified the optimal number of clusters and the subset of distinguishing variables. Univariate analyses assessed significant cluster differences.
Results:
High levels of sitting clustered with low physical activity. The Ambulatory & Active cluster (n = 6254) sat for 2.5 to 5 h·d−1 and were highly active. They were significantly younger, included a greater proportion of males and reported low Indices of Multiple Deprivation compared with other clusters. Conversely, the Sedentary & Low Active cluster (n = 6286) achieved ≤60 MET·min·wk−1 of physical activity and sat for ≥8 h·d−1. They were the oldest cluster, housed the largest proportion of females and reported moderate Indices of Multiple Deprivation.
Conclusions:
Public Health systems may benefit from developing policy and interventions that do more to limit sedentary behavior and encourage light intensity activity in its place.
Physical Activity Accumulated Across Adulthood and Resting Heart Rate at Age 41–46 Years in Women: Findings From the Menarche to Premenopause Study
Gregore I. Mielke, Jenny Doust, Hsiu-Wen Chan, and Gita D. Mishra
health irrespective of timing for women, tailored public health messages that take into account the amount of physical activity accumulated across the reproductive ages might be particularly important for women who are likely to decrease physical activity due to pregnancy. 15 In conclusion, this study
A Systematic Review of the Associations of Adiposity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Arterial Structure and Function in Nonclinical Children and Adolescents
Kelsey L. McAlister, Diana Zhang, Kristen N. Moore, Tiffany M. Chapman, Jennifer Zink, and Britni R. Belcher
, Stiles CR , Hagen NA , Biondo PD , Cummings GG . Assessment of study quality for systematic reviews: a comparison of the Cochrane Collaboration risk of bias tool and the effective public health practice project quality assessment tool: methodological research . J Eval Clin Pract . 2012 ; 18
Powerful Partnering: Courting New Realms to Boost Global Physical Activity Promotion
Becky H. Lankenau, Dianne Culhane, and Maria Stefan
This symposium addressed the importance of selective partnering between public health and other sectors in order to enhance physical activity promotion. The speakers reviewed the potential benefits of partnering, common partnering concerns and their remedies, and important tasks for developing successful partnerships. Key leadership practices and a framework for convening conversations with potential partners were presented. Motivations for industry, trade associations, and other partners to engage with public health to promote physical activity were discussed, and the importance of using stakeholder relationship management to engage partners was emphasized.
Effectiveness of Prison-Based Exercise Training Programs: A Systematic Review
Miguel A. Sanchez-Lastra, Vicente de Dios Álvarez, and Carlos Ayán Pérez
The promotion of healthy lifestyle habits among inmates is a public health imperative. 1 It has been observed that in this collective, physical inactivity has a higher incidence in relation to the general population. 2 This is an aspect of special relevance due to the fact that physical
Going Short: The Effects of Short-Travel Key Switches on Typing Performance, Typing Force, Forearm Muscle Activity, and User Experience
Sarah M. Coppola, Philippe C. Dixon, Boyi Hu, Michael Y.C. Lin, and Jack T. Dennerlein
without breaks, and the highest measure was used. All protocols were approved by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Northeastern Institutional Review Boards for human research, and all participants provided written informed consent before participating. Experimental Tasks Participants
