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ABORIGINAL
Most health care providers and
policy-makers know there are significant health disparities between First
Nations, Inuit, and Métis people and non-Indigenous Canadians. What they don’t
know is that the attitudes and behaviour of health care providers may
unwittingly contribute to this situation…
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
A new
infographic from the Bupa Group (Australia)
Preventive
Medicine online 19 June 2013 In Press, Uncorrected Proof
The study
examined correlates of bicycle ownership and bicycling frequency, and projected
increases in cycling if perceived safety from cars was improved. Participants
were 1780 adults aged 20–65 recruited from the Seattle, Washington and
Baltimore, Maryland regions….
The latest batch of data from Statistics
Canada shows no difference in the percentage of Canadians who rode their bike
to work in 2011 and 2006. That number remains unchanged at 1.3 per cent. That
works out to 201,785 cyclists out of more than 15 million commuters.
KidActive is our app that will help you
guide your kids to physical literacy. It was built for your mobile phone or
tablet but you can also use it on any computer. It includes 50+ fun, quick and
easy activities that your kids can do.
CHILDREN
The Excellence in Paediatrics Institute,
a global community of pediatric healthcare professionals, announced a new
educational initiative to help support families in making lifestyle changes,
called PEARL…..
If you'd like to get your family onto
their feet, try these great activities. Do them on the way home from school, on
the weekend, or on your next holiday.
CHRONIC DISEASE
The purpose of the Policy, Location, and
Access in Community Environments (PLACE) research lab is to contribute to a
better understanding of the people-policy-place relationships in chronic
disease interventions and prevention initiatives. Work in the PLACE lab
involves community-based participatory research, qualitative and quantitative
methodologies, and GIS mapping.
Social Science & Medicine online 19
June 2013 In Press, Accepted Manuscript
In particular, we find that to improve
their lifestyles, overweight and obese people would be more likely to do more
physical activity than to change their diets. Therefore, public policies aimed
to target obesity and its related illnesses in Northern Ireland should invest
public money in promoting physical activity rather than healthier diets.
DISABILITY/ACCESSIBILITY
This document is designed to engage six
important sectors as partners with a mutual interest in increasing physical
activity among adults with arthritis using environmental and policy strategies.
OLDER ADULTS
How do you get urban planners,
transportation engineers, and anyone running around a city in their prime to
picture the places where we live through the shaded eyes of an octogenarian?
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
online 21 June 2013 In Press, Corrected Proof
This study examined the relationships
between locomotive and visual/hearing disorders and the risk of falling and ADL
function in community-dwelling elderly individuals in Japan. The influence to
the risk of falling was grater in the presence of only a locomotive disorder
than other disorders….. Although there was no significant odds ratio in the
presence of multiple disorders, the prevalence rate of the multiple disorders
increases with age, and the risk of falling increases with age. Having multiple
disorders or locomotive disorder had a significant effect on physical function,
and this trend was more prevalent in females than in males.
Research on Aging July 2013 vol. 35 no.
4 459-480
doi: 10.1177/0164027512454886
During six
focus group, 51 residents of retirement villages in Australia discussed the
environment that would support active lifestyles. The three factors identified
by residents were a positive social environment within the retirement village,
the facilities and services available both within the village and in the
surrounding neighborhood, and infrastructure that made it easy to walk. The
authors wrote that the unique finding was that the residents were interested in
environmental factors in the surrounding neighborhood as well as in the village.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Perspectives on Sport is a series of
short articles on topics of interest relating to sport and physical recreation
using data sourced from a range of ABS surveys. This release includes
Children's participation in physical activity and screen-based activities and
Women in Sport.
A proposed bipartisan bill that would
require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prescribe exercise
guidelines for Americans……. driven by their concerns about helping to promote
healthy exercise habits, especially among schoolchildren. Under their bill, HHS
would publish a report on "Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans" every 10 years. The report would contain exercise guidelines,
which would be promoted by federal agencies that promote good health.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Vol 45, Iss 1, July 2013, Pages 56–63
Financial incentives have been advocated
by the UK and U.S. governments to encourage adoption of healthy lifestyles.
However, evidence to support the use of incentives for changing physical
activity (PA) behavior is sparse….The authors conclude that financial
incentives did not encourage participants to undertake more PA than
self-monitoring PA.
The Playing for Life (P4L) philosophy is
based on a theoretical approach that uses games rather than drills to introduce
sport or structured physical activity. It is designed to create a fun and
inclusive environment for children of all abilities to participate in sporting
activities.
URBAN DESIGN
Many
communities across the country are increasingly interested in linkages between
health and
transportation. Components of the transportation decision making process
can offer
health practitioners an opportunity to participate in the process.
WOMEN
American Journal of Cardiology,
111(12):1805-1811
Physical activity and healthy eating
help control levels of blood sugar and blood pressure, while lowering or
maintaining a healthy body weight… The results suggested that low-to-moderate
intensity cardiorespiratory exercise did lower components of the metabolic
syndrome in the exercising women.
Journal of Women Aging.
2013;25(3):260-72
doi: 10.1080/08952841.2013.791605
group of 200 women, ages 45-64 years
old, were asked about their current levels of physical activity, what motivated
them to be active, and their plans for the future. Initially, the women engaged
in physical activity for personal fulfillment. Their current motivations were
the health benefits, taking care of oneself, and outdoor and family activities.
