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Book Synopsis Community Design and Recreation Environment Correlates of Adolescent Physical Activity by : Sandra Kaye Nutter
Download or read book Community Design and Recreation Environment Correlates of Adolescent Physical Activity written by Sandra Kaye Nutter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental Correlates of Adolescent Physical Activity by : Morton Kligerman
Download or read book Environmental Correlates of Adolescent Physical Activity written by Morton Kligerman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Transportation Research Board Publisher :Transportation Research Board ISBN 13 :0309094984 Total Pages :269 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (9 download)
Book Synopsis Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? by : Transportation Research Board
Download or read book Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? written by Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Special Report 282: Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? Examining the Evidence reviews the broad trends affecting the relationships among physical activity, health, transportation, and land use; summarizes what is known about these relationships, including the strength and magnitude of any causal connections; examines implications for policy; and recommends priorities for future research.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309492688 Total Pages :197 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical activity has far-reaching benefits for physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being for all segments of the population. Despite these documented health benefits and previous efforts to promote physical activity in the U.S. population, most Americans do not meet current public health guidelines for physical activity. Surveillance in public health is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific data, which can then be used for planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice. Surveillance of physical activity is a core public health function that is necessary for monitoring population engagement in physical activity, including participation in physical activity initiatives. Surveillance activities are guided by standard protocols and are used to establish baseline data and to track implementation and evaluation of interventions, programs, and policies that aim to increase physical activity. However, physical activity is challenging to assess because it is a complex and multidimensional behavior that varies by type, intensity, setting, motives, and environmental and social influences. The lack of surveillance systems to assess both physical activity behaviors (including walking) and physical activity environments (such as the walkability of communities) is a critical gap. Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States develops strategies that support the implementation of recommended actions to improve national physical activity surveillance. This report also examines and builds upon existing recommended actions.
Book Synopsis Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity by : National Research Council
Download or read book Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life expectancy of today's generation of children. While parents and other adult caregivers play a fundamental role in teaching children about healthy behaviors, even the most positive efforts can be undermined by local environments that are poorly suited to supporting healthy behaviors. For example, many communities lack ready sources of healthy food choices, such as supermarkets and grocery stores. Or they may not provide safe places for children to walk or play. In such communities, even the most motivated child or adolescent may find it difficult to act in healthy ways. Local governments-with jurisdiction over many aspects of land use, food marketing, community planning, transportation, health and nutrition programs, and other community issues-are ideally positioned to promote behaviors that will help children and adolescents reach and maintain healthy weights. Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity presents a number of recommendations that touch on the vital role of government actions on all levels-federal, state, and local-in childhood obesity prevention. The book offers healthy eating and physical activity strategies for local governments to consider, making it an excellent resource for mayors, managers, commissioners, council members, county board members, and administrators.
Book Synopsis Enhancing Youth Access to Community Recreation Facilities by : Carolyn M. Hureau
Download or read book Enhancing Youth Access to Community Recreation Facilities written by Carolyn M. Hureau and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the high prevalence of physical inactivity, effective strategies are urgently needed to increase physical activity levels among youth, especially those most at risk for inactivity including adolescent girls, older adolescents, and youth from low socioeconomic status households. A clear understanding of the factors associated with physical activity among youth is needed to design effective interventions. Physical activity is a complex behaviour that is influenced by intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental factors. Most recently, emphasis has been placed on the environmental correlates of youth physical activity. One consistent finding is that access to recreation facilities and opportunities to be active are positively associated with youths' physical activity participation. Environmental interventions, which are often community-based, hold particular promise of instilling population-wide change. Yet, to date, little information is available about the effectiveness of environmental interventions to enhance youth physical activity in community settings. The manuscript presented in Chapter 3 of this thesis addresses these gaps in knowledge by providing evidence about a community-based initiative designed to increase access to recreation facilities by eliminating facility user-fees for youth. More specifically, recreation facility use among adolescents (n=1261; Mage = 14.97 " 0.39; 46.3% girls) was objectively measured and the factors associated with the use of recreation facilities were examined. A total of 200 students accessed at least one facility. Results revealed that the likelihood of the best multilevel model examining pass use was 13 times larger than a model that included only individual-level predictors (p
Book Synopsis Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity Among Children, Adolescents, and Parents by : Stephen Grant Samuel Hunter
Download or read book Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity Among Children, Adolescents, and Parents written by Stephen Grant Samuel Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Most Canadians are inactive. Given insufficient physical activity is linked to multiple chronic diseases and mortality, increasing physical activity has become a public health priority. To inform future interventions, modifiable correlates and determinants of physical activity need to be identified. Local, national, and international policy documents have highlighted the importance of creating active living environments that promote regular physical activity. While several behvioural settings exist, neighbourhoods provide opportunities for both structured and unstructured physical activity opportunities for multiple ages. However, before modifying existing environments or developing new active living environments, it is first important to consider the features that promote physical activity. Further, for active living environments to have a sustainable impact, identifying features that promote physical activity across multiple ages groups is important. Therefore, the overall purpose of this dissertation is to identify environmental correlates of physical activity across multiple age groups (preschool children, school-aged children, adolescents, adults) within the neighbourhood setting. Methods: Three studies were conducted. In study one, parents were surveyed regarding the features of their neighbourhood environment that they perceived as important to their own physical activity as well as their children's physical activity and parent-child coactivity. In study two, associations of objectively measured walkability and parental perceptions of the environment with children's physical activity (i.e., daily step counts, parent reported physical activity) were examined using data from the SHAPES of Things to Come project. In study three, the longitudinal associations between the objectively measured built environment surrounding schools and self-reported physical activity and active mode of transport among adolescents were examined using data from the COMPASS project. Results: In study 1, several neighbourhood features, related to destinations, design, social, safety and aesthetics, were identified by the majority of parents as important for their own physical activity, their child's active play, and parent-child coactivity. There were several significant differences in the proportions of parents who identified features as relevant between activity types (parent physical activity, child active play, parent-child coactivity). Few differences were observed by household income. In study two, objectively measured walkability was not associated with children's steps or parent reported physical activity. However, significant associations were observed for neighbourhood aesthetics and traffic hazards with parental reported physical activity, along with walking and cycling infrastructure during the winter months. In study 3, significant associations were observed between retail-, park-, and recreation center- densities along with Walk Scores in the school neighbourhood environment with adolescent MVPA and active school travel. Students attending schools in environments considered very walkable had an increased likelihood of active school travel and maintained higher MVPA over time. Conclusion: Across all three studies, there is evidence to suggest features that support walking is important for preschool children's active play, parents' recreational physical activity and coactivity with their children, along with school-aged children's parent reported physical activity, and adolescent's self-reported active school travel and MVPA. Finding ways to incorporate features that support walking into home and school neighbourhoods could promote physical activity across age groups. More longitudinal research that accounts for behavioural and context-specificity, multiple activity settings and their characteristics, and intra- and inter- personal characteristics is needed.
Book Synopsis Environmental Correlates of Adolescent Use of Public Open Space for Physical Activity by : Nicole Edwards
Download or read book Environmental Correlates of Adolescent Use of Public Open Space for Physical Activity written by Nicole Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental correlates of physical activity behaviour have received much attention in the public health, geography, urban design, planning and transport literature over the past decade. Adolescents are an important age group to consider, given habits developed in childhood can potentially track into adulthood. This is an age where young people begin to have independent mobility, which has been associated with increased physical activity levels. The built environment is consistently associated with physical activity behaviours among adolescents. However, gaps in knowledge exist around which environmental features influence adolescent physical activity. Moreover, very little research has been undertaken on adolescents living in regional or rural areas.To date, proximity to parks (often measured as the closest park to a study participant's residence) and availability of facilities have often been examined as correlates of physical activity participation. Park attributes, that make parks more desirable to adults, have been identified and an attractiveness score has been developed in accordance with adult park use. Yet, there appears to be no published research that has identified which attributes of a park (in isolation or combination) make a park more appealing for adolescents to use for physical activity. Moreover, rarely has a study looked at the attributes of parks that have actually been reported as being used by study participants.Methods used to audit parks have traditionally relied on site visits to subjectively measure park attributes. This method of park auditing can be costly and time consuming. As such, a more objective method that eliminates the need for site visits could potentially advance research methods associated with the built environment and physical activity participation. Indeed, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) enables remote-assessment methods and the opportunity to measure park attributes in a more objective fashion.The overarching aims of this research were to investigate the environmental factors related to adolescent 'park and beach use' and physical activity and in doing so, develop environmental measures relevant to adolescent physical activity.
Author :Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309283140 Total Pages :503 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (92 download)
Book Synopsis Educating the Student Body by : Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment
Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Book Synopsis Making Healthy Places by : Andrew L. Dannenberg
Download or read book Making Healthy Places written by Andrew L. Dannenberg and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.
Download or read book Palaro written by Karla Junella Silva and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical activity influences adolescent growth as well as current and future health. Similarly, the accessibility of sports and recreation facilities correlates to the level of exercise a person gets. Adolescents in underserved communities, on the other hand, who cannot afford private sports facilities or gyms, are more likely to be physically inactive and develop dangerous habits. Adapting to the site context of limited land area in highly urbanized neighborhoods. This especially applies to adolescents in underserved areas who cannot afford private sports facilities or gyms, and are prone to dangerous habits. Doing this may lower the prevalence of physical inactivity among Filipino adolescents. Alongside, encouraging them to be mindful of their general health and fully enjoy their rights as youth. Authorities will then be better able to supply fundamental sports and leisure infrastructure services.Based on the need to provide physical activity opportunities for adolescents living in underserved urban areas, the setting of advocated sports and recreational activities is believed to play a significant role in developing the physical environment in which these physical activities are performed. The diverse range of sports and recreation activities brought together under one roof is based on WHO-recommended physical activities for teenagers as preferred by the adolescents of the chosen Barangay. This study revealed a great desire for the surveyed adolescents to have access to adequate sports programs and facilities conducive to conduct their various pursuits.In effect, the premise of this study of creating a stimulating environment based on the Arousal Motivation Theory for physical activity in the community led to a stacked neighborhood sports and recreation center that is believed (with the findings of this document) that a moderate level of environmental stimuli based on the physical environment actually is an ideal condition for human conditioning. As a result, the strategies that follow are put in place to offer choice and variety: integration of nature into the built environment, application of universal design principles, and improvement of physiological conditions.
Book Synopsis Physical Activity and Children by : Noemie P. Beaulieu
Download or read book Physical Activity and Children written by Noemie P. Beaulieu and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for developing coronary artery disease. It also increases the risk of stroke and such other major cardiovascular risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure, low HDL ("good") cholesterol and diabetes. The American Heart Association recommends that children and adolescents participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. Increased physical activity has been associated with an increased life expectancy and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Physical activity produces overall physical, psychological and social benefits. Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. This book presents new research in the field from around the world.
Book Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health by : Matilda van den Bosch
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health written by Matilda van den Bosch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have always been affected by their surroundings. There are various health benefits linked to being able to access to nature; including increased physical activity, stress recovery, and the stimulation of child cognitive development. The Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health provides a broad and inclusive picture of the relationship between our own health and the natural environment. All aspects of this unique relationship are covered, ranging from disease prevention through physical activity in green spaces to innovative ecosystem services, such as climate change adaptation by urban trees. Potential hazardous consequences are also discussed including natural disasters, vector-borne pathogens, and allergies. This book analyses the complexity of our human interaction with nature and includes sections for example epigenetics, stress physiology, and impact assessments. These topics are all interconnected and fundamental for reaching a full understanding of the role of nature in public health and wellbeing. Much of the recent literature on environmental health has primarily described potential threats from our natural surroundings. The Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health instead focuses on how nature can positively impact our health and wellbeing, and how much we risk losing by destroying it. The all-inclusive approach provides a comprehensive and complete coverage of the role of nature in public health, making this textbook invaluable reading for health professionals, students, and researchers within public health, environmental health, and complementary medicine.
Book Synopsis Obesogenic Environments by : Amelia Lake
Download or read book Obesogenic Environments written by Amelia Lake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. The obesogenic environment describes all the possible influences that our environment presents which encourage overweight and obesity in individuals and populations. Beginning with an overarching introduction to obesity and its implications for health and wellbeing, the book will move on to consider such crucial areas as eating behaviours and food environments, physical activity and the environment, the urban environment, methods, policy and future research directions. Brings together expertise from across a range of disciplines Written by a truly multidisciplinary team of international authors Presents some of the most innovative thinking in the battle against obesity This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the knowledge of experts with backgrounds in nutrition and dietetics, policy, epidemiology, environmental sciences, medical sciences, town planning and urban design, transport, geography and physical activity in order to offer a multidisciplinary approach to public health, suggesting new and exciting ways to shape our environment to better support healthful decisions.
Book Synopsis Obesity Epidemiology by : David Crawford
Download or read book Obesity Epidemiology written by David Crawford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Obesity prevention and public health / edited by David Crawford and Robert W. Jeffery. 2005.
Book Synopsis Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Special Report 282: Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? Examining the Evidence reviews the broad trends affecting the relationships among physical activity, health, transportation, and land use; summarizes what is known about these relationships, including the strength and magnitude of any causal connections; examines implications for policy; and recommends priorities for future research.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics by : Tole Sutikno
Download or read book Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics written by Tole Sutikno and published by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world. The journal publishes original papers in the field of electrical, electronics, instrumentation & control, telecommunication, computer and informatics engineering. Vol 2, No 3 September 2013 Table of Contents Relevant Words Extraction Method for Recommendation System PDF Naw Naw, Ei Ei Hlaing 169-176 Relevant Words Extraction Method in Text Mining PDF Naw Naw 177-181 Semantic Constraints Satisfaction Based Improved Quality of Ontology Alignment PDF Fatemeh Fakhar 182-189 Off-Grid Energy Technologies used in Rural Areas of India PDF Krishan Arora, Amardeep Singh Virdi 190-193 Robust Coordinated Designing of PSS and UPFC Damping Controller PDF Amin Safari 194-203 Design and Development of an Automated Multi Axis Solar Tracker Using PLC PDF Santhosh Krishna Venkata, J S Rajshekar 204-211 On the Investigation of a Novel Dual-Control-Gate Floating Gate Transistor for VCO Applications PDF Abderrezak Marzaki, V. Bidal, R. Laffont, W. Rahajandraibe, J-M. Portal, E. Bergeret, R. Bouchakour 212-217 Neural Network Model of Estimation of Body Mass Index Based on Indirect Input Factors PDF Seyed Hosein Hoseini, Meisam Pourahmadi-Nakhli, Ali Soltani 218-224 Naïve Bayes Decision Tree Hybrid Approach for Intrusion Detection System PDF Bekti Maryuni Susanto 225-232
