INFORMATION RESOURCES ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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Evidence base & guidelines
Physical activity and environment (2008)
This guidance offers the first national, evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the physical environment to encourage physical activity. It demonstrates the importance of such improvements and the need to evaluate how they impact on the public's health.
The effectiveness of public health interventions for increasing physical activity among adults: a review of reviews (2005)
This evidence briefing - produced by the Health Development Agency – aims to identify successful interventions in increasing physical activity among the adult population. It is an updated version of the February 2004 publication of the same name. It is intended to inform policy and decision makers, NHS providers, public health physicians and public health practitioners.
Choosing Health? Choosing Activity – a consultation on how to increase physical activity (2004)
This document looks into how increases in physical activity can be brought about by encouraging individuals to choose activity, and how to ensure that the option for choosing physical activity is present in education, the workplace, travel and the community setting. Also it considers the roles of the health and social care system in local delivery.
The General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPPAQ)
The General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire was launched in December 2006, in response to the NICE Public Health Intervention Guideline of March 2006, which recommended that GPs should identify inactive adults and advise them to get active. It is a tool to help GPs and Practice Nurses assess patients' activity levels so that healthcare practitioners and local commissioners can target those at greatest risk from inactivity.
NICE Public Health Intervention Guidance (2006)
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s physical activity public health intervention guidance covers four common methods used to increase the population's physical activity levels: This guidance examines only a small number of possible approaches to increasing individual activity levels.
- Brief interventions in primary care
- Exercise referral schemes
- Pedometers
- Community-based walking and cycling programmes
Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials (2007)
This systematic review assessed 57 studies that examined interventions to increase physical activity in young people. Limited evidence was found for effective interventions in children, mainly due to a lack of high quality evaluations. For adolescents, it was seen that multi-component interventions and those involving family and community were most effective.
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