application of devices to public health. Challenges where collaboration is needed include the ability to pool data for enhanced metric and algorithm development and testing, which requires accepted common terminology, protocol harmonization, and perhaps even standards development. Ideally for public health
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Evolution of Public Health Physical Activity Applications of Accelerometers: A Personal Perspective
Richard P. Troiano
Context Matters: The Importance of Physical Activity Domains for Public Health
Tyler D. Quinn and Bethany Barone Gibbs
, there were limited data to support or refute this contention. While these widely applicable and domain-agnostic guidelines have considerable public health value in promoting physical activity at the population level, recent research challenges the assumption of equivalent health impacts across all
Physical Activity Guidelines for the Brazilian Population: Development and Methods
Maria Cecília Marinho Tenório, Christianne Coelho-Ravagnani, Daniel Umpierre, Douglas Roque Andrade, Roseanne Autran, Mauro Virgilio Gomes de Barros, Tânia R. Bertoldo Benedetti, Fabiana Vieira Santos Azevedo Cavalcante, Edilson Serpeloni Cyrino, Samuel Carvalho Dumith, Alex Antonio Florindo, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Grégore Iven Mielke, Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias, Lorena Lima Magalhães, Paula Fabricio Sandreschi, Sofia Wolker Manta, Juliana Rezende Melo da Silva, Kelly Samara da Silva, Fernando Carlos Vinholes Siqueira, Pedro Curi Hallal, and on behalf of the Brazilian Physical Activity Guidelines Working Group*
, Agita São Paulo and Academia da Saude), 2 and engaging in high-level scientific activities (eg, leadership role in the Lancet PA Series, and hosting the International Congress of PA and Public Health) (Figure 1 ). Figure 1 —A series of landmark events taking place in the Brazil. Despite being one of the
Better Late Than Never?! Five Compelling Reasons for Putting Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries High Up on the Public Health Research Agenda
Katja Siefken, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Temo Waqanivalu, and Nico Schulenkorf
-standing silent pandemic of physical inactivity and its health consequences as one of the most pressing global public health challenges—particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is well known that physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality and contributes
Global Public Health Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior for People Living With Chronic Conditions: A Call to Action
Paddy C. Dempsey, Christine M. Friedenreich, Michael F. Leitzmann, Matthew P. Buman, Estelle Lambert, Juana Willumsen, and Fiona Bull
management over periods of years to decades. Chronic conditions are leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally, contributing substantially toward total public health burden, including some 73.4% (41 million) of all deaths in 2017. 1 , 2 The growing burden of chronic disease is affecting all
Therapeutic Alliance and Its Potential Application to Physical Activity Interventions for Older Adults: A Narrative Review
Andrew Powell
has become a priority for public health interventions in the United Kingdom to reduce the risk of preventable health conditions developing and promote healthy aging ( Public Health England, 2014 ). Despite challenges in synthesizing evidence from heterogeneous studies using mainly randomized
The Evolution of Physical Activity and Health Research in China: A Bibliometric Analysis of Study Areas and Sex Balance in Authorship
Kaiyue Zhang, Diana Morales, Junshi Chen, Wenhua Zhao, Anne Tang, Eduardo Kohn, Ding Ding, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Michael Pratt, and Pedro C. Hallal
Physical inactivity is one of the leading risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide—inactivity has been shown to be responsible for 5.3 million deaths per year globally. 1 The fact that physical activity became a public health priority over the past few decades is strongly
Breaking Barriers: An Innovative Tool to Assess the National and City-Level Physical Activity Policy Development to Practice Disconnect
Eugen Resendiz, Andrea Ramírez-Varela, Juliana Mejía-Grueso, Jane Moon, Josef Mitáš, Ross C. Brownson, Deborah Salvo, and Michael Pratt
United Nations Children’s Fund) as well as public health scientists have advocated for the recognition of access to active lifestyle opportunities as a human right. 2 – 6 Despite physical activity known benefits, physical inactivity remains a global pandemic, with 28% of adults and 81% of adolescents
Achieving Advocacy Success—The International Society for Physical Activity and Health’s Long-Term Strategy to Advance Physical Activity as a Priority in Global Health Policy
Trevor Shilton and Karen Milton
, strategies, and supportive environments that inform, motivate, and support individuals and communities to be active in ways that are safe, accessible, and enjoyable. At the time, other areas of public health were well ahead of physical activity in efforts to secure policy recognition and action, in
Erratum. Context Matters: The Importance of Physical Activity Domains for Public Health
Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
TO OUR READERS: An error appeared in the following article: Quinn, T.D., & Barone Gibbs, B. (2023). Context matters: The importance of physical activity domains for public health. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour , 6 (4), 245–249. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2023-0030 A funding
