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Promoting Physical Activity Centers for Disease Control

Promoting Physical Activity By Centers for Disease Control

Promoting Physical Activity by Centers for Disease Control

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Presenting the ideas to improve your activity programmes, this title shows you how to get people off the couch and on their way to healthy living. It explores the 8 most effective group interventions. It provides the scientific and practical information you need to increase physical activity and improve health in your community.

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Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action by Centers for Disease Control

A resource for state, territorial, tribal and local governments, and public health departments; transportation, health, and community planners; exercise specialists and health professionals; community groups; businesses; schools, colleges, and universities; parks and recreation agencies; social service organizations; and any other professionals or volunteers who wish to promote physical activity and healthier lifestyles in their community.

About Centers for Disease Control

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation's premier public health agency, working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States. CDC's focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC-to protect the health of all people. CDC keeps humanity at the forefront of its mission to ensure health protection through promotion, prevention, and preparedness.

CDC's, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is part of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. DNPAO's vision, mission, and goals are:

DNPAO's vision - a world where regular physical activity, good nutrition, and healthy weight are part of everyone's life.

DNPAO's mission - to lead strategic public health efforts to prevent and control obesity, chronic disease, and other health conditions though regular physical activity and good nutrition.

DNPAO's goals:

*Increase health-related physical activity through population-based approaches.

*Improve those aspects of dietary quality most related to the population burden of chronic disease and unhealthy child development.

*Decrease prevalence of obesity through preventing excess weight gain and maintenance of healthy weight loss.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations for Physical Activity Promotion

Chapter 1: Health Benefits of Physical Activity

What Is Physical Activity?

What Is Physical Fitness?

Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure

Determinants of the Health Benefits of Physical Activity

Types of Physical Activity

Other Attributes of Physical Activity

Preventive Health Benefits of Physical Activity

Health Benefits of Physical Activity in Children

Prevention of Functional Limitations and Disability

Therapeutic Exercise

Perspective on Physical Activity Risks

Conclusion

Resources

Chapter 2: Physical Activity Recommendations

Healthy People 2010: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives Related to Physical Activity and Physical Fitness

Physical Activity Recommendations for Adults-Historical Considerations

Overview of Current Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults

Current Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults

What's New About the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines For Americans?

Physical Activity Recommendations for Older Adults-Historical Considerations

Current Physical Activity Guidelines for Older Adults

Physical Activity Recommendations for Children and Adolescents-Historical Considerations

Current Physical Activity Guidelines for Children And Adolescents

Summary

Suggested Readings

Part II: Approaches and Interventions for Changing Physical Activity Behavior

Chapter 3: Informational Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity

Community-Wide Campaigns

Point-of-Decision Prompts

Chapter 4: Behavioral and Social Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity

Enhanced School-Based Physical Education

Individually-Adapted Behavior Change Interventions

Social Support Interventions in Community Settings

Chapter 5: Environmental and Policy Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity

Creation of or Enhanced Access to Places for Physical Activity Combined With Informational Outreach Activities

Community-Scale and Street-Scale Urban Design and Land Use Policies and Practices to Promote Physical Activity

Part III: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Your Intervention or Program

Chapter 6: Partnerships

Key Steps to an Effective Partnership

Step 1: Determine Whether a Partnership Is Necessary

Step 2: Determine Whether Potential Partners Have the Capacity and Interest to Support the Physical Activity Partnership

Step 3: Recruit Partners

Step 4: Establish Leadership

Step 5: Determine One or More Common Goals

Step 6: Determine the Partner's Level of Involvement and Cooperation in the Partnership

Step 7: Define the Partnership's Operational Structure

Step 8: Keep the Long-Term Goal in View

Step 9: Start with Reasonable Short-Term Objectives

Step 10: Evaluate the Partnership

Conclusion

Recommended Readings

Chapter 7: Program Planning and Evaluation

Program Planning

Program Evaluation

Conclusion

Suggested Readings

Part IV: Resources for Action

Additional information

CIN0736062084G
9780736062084
0736062084
Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action by Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
Used - Good
Paperback
Human Kinetics Publishers
20100504
280
N/A
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