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ABORIGINAL
The Government of the Northwest
Territories’ stamp of approval on healthy choices you can make….. the public
face of the Healthy Choices Framework, a GNWT-wide approach to encouraging and
supporting NWT residents to make healthy and safe choices, consistent with the
17th Legislative Assembly’s goal of fostering healthy, educated people.
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
Success Story: Bear Creek pupils could
attend the school even if they did not live within the immediate catchment
area. These children, however, did not have access to school bus service
The Every Body Walk! 2013 Walking Summit
was held October 1–3, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Every Body Walk! captured footage from the Walking Summit's main event
and compiled it into 33 short-running films.
Massive snowfalls like the one that hit the
US east coast this week usually spell trouble for traffic. But critics of
America's car-centric transport network are using the snow - and Twitter - to
demonstrate how roads should be redesigned to make them safer for pedestrians.
Cities are full of buildings, parks, malls,
statues, vistas, landmarks, monuments, restaurants, dark alleys, bad
neighborhoods, and a gaggle of other things that redirect the flow of human
traffic. Space syntax uses a grid of all the walkable paths in a city to
predict how people would move in an idealized version of the city, then
measures how other parts the city’s texture attracts or repels people away from
this prediction.
Will Wales become Europe's next active
travel boom region? Solid foundations have now been laid by the Welsh national
assembly who passed in November the 'Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013' - the
world's first active travel legislation, according to ECF member Sustrans...
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
PLoS ONE 9(1): e85295.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085295
We conclude that both residential density
and the availability of walkable destinations are good measures of urban
walkability and can be recommended for use by policy-makers, planners and
public health officials. In our setting, the combination of both factors
provided additional explanatory power.
CHILDREN
The aim of this project was to determine an
approach for CS4L/LTAD program implementation focused on fundamental movement
skills and sequential learning to support the progression of all...
J Pediatr Psychol. 2014 Jan;39(1):65-73.
doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jst086
This study assessed longitudinal
associations between preadolescent's physical activity engagement (PA),
health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and teasing during physical activity
(TDPA)….. Children with overweight or obesity who experience TDPA are more
likely to report poorer subsequent HRQOL. Children with normal weight who
experience TDPA are at increased risk for reduced PA 1 year later. Efforts to
reduce TDPA may benefit children's HRQOL and increase PA participation.
Four pilot projects were announced at the
CS4L National Summit, the first of nine, to test the Canadian Sport for Life
model in communities for the long-term benefit of children and adults by
creating better quality sport opportunities and more engaged communities.
Alberta Health Services’ Healthy Children
and Youth team is pleased to announce the re-launch of (this) website. This site provides evidence-informed tools
and resources that can be used to support healthy school communities in
Alberta. The website now includes more practical information, resources, and
tools to support Comprehensive School Health (CSH).
A guest post by recently retired Mike
Aurthur.
Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn’t
have any school buses. It never has.….. When Lakewood reduced the number of
schools, it made sure they — especially the elementary schools — were spaced
out to be close to as many students as possible. Rather than trading the older,
walkable buildings for a more sprawling style, many of the historic school
buildings underwent historic preservation treatments. That means no giant
parking lots either. Some parents or visitors might have to park on a nearby
street.
COMMUNITY
Four $50,000 grants are being awarded each
year to support community amenities and facilities that promote active living,
with a particular emphasis on children. To ensure province-wide representation,
the grants are split with one for Edmonton, one for Calgary, one for secondary
cities and one for rural communities.
DISABILITY/ACCESSIBILITY
The survey is based on a social model of disabilities
rather than a medical model. The social model is based on the premise that
disability is the result of the interaction between a person’s functional
limitations and barriers in the environment, including social and physical
barriers that make it harder to function day-to-day. Thus, disability is a
social disadvantage that an unsupportive environment imposes on top of an
individual’s impairment
MENTAL HEALTH
Health Evidence Review Quality Rating: 9
(strong)
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2014, 48 (2), pp
1247–1255
DOI: 10.1021/es403688w
This study used panel data to explore three
different hypotheses about how moving to greener or less green areas may affect
mental health over time. The samples were participants in the British Household
Panel Survey with mental health data (General Health Questionnaire scores) for
five consecutive years, and who relocated to a different residential area
between the second and third years…..
OLDER ADULTS
Webinar March 13th
The Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum
(CFPC) was developed in response to the identified need for training through a
Canada-wide survey of practitioners working in the area of seniors falls
prevention. The CFPC gives participants the knowledge and skills needed to
operate from an evidence-based approach to falls prevention among seniors
through development of site specific fall prevention plans.
Health Evidence Review Quality Rating: 9
(strong)
Health Evidence Review Quality Rating: 10
(strong)
Archives of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Available online 29 January 2014
Participants performed a range of
activities (sitting, lying, walking and standing) in both a standardized and
home setting while wearing the accelerometer. Activities in the standardized
setting were performed in a scripted sequence. Activities in the home setting
were performed in an unscripted manner. Analyzed accelerometer data were
compared against video observation as the reference measure.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
American researchers studied the benefits
of closing streets to automobile traffic (“Open Streets” events), to provide
everyone with a totally safe and user-friendly place to exercise. Between 2008
and 2013, over 80 U.S. cities organized at least one “Open Streets” type event.
In reviewing the data, the researchers found that, in people participating in
more than one of these events, daily physical activity increased by 5 minutes a
day…..
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Vol 89, Iss 2, Febr
2014, Pages 190–198
Data for this study were obtained from the
2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey cycles. We selected
a sample of 5211 participants and categorized them into 4 groups: (1) healthy
diet and active, (2) unhealthy diet and active, (3) healthy diet and inactive,
and (4) unhealthy diet and inactive.
RESEARCH
Webinar Feb 11th
The Knowledge Translation Planning Primer
was designed for people who are new to KT and/or have limited resources to do
KT. This plain-language tool builds on existing KT resources and is a starting
point for those developing a KT plan.
RURAL
The RALA Tools assess the physical
environment features and amenities, town characteristics, community programs,
and policies that can affect physical activity among residents in rural
communities. This tool is suitable for both practitioners and researchers.
SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR
Mental Health and Physical Activity
Available online 21 January 2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2014.01.001
Highlights:
There are positive benefits of physical
activity (PA) on the brain and cognition.
Sedentary behavior (SB) is known to
negatively affect metabolic health.
We review data relevant to how sedentary
behavior may affect the brain.
We review how PA and SB may interact in
their effect on the brain and cognition.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine Vol
46, Iss 2, Pgs 122-135
As part of the Women’s Health Initiative
study, 92,234 women ages 50–79 years at baseline reported the amount of time
the spent in sedentary activities (sitting and resting, but not sleeping)…. After
an average follow-up of 12 years, women reporting more than 11 hours/day of
sedentary time had a 12% increase in all-cause premature mortality compared
with those with four hours or less per day of sedentary time.
WOMEN
Health Evidence Review Quality Rating: 8
(strong)
Webinar February 12th, 2014 13:00 – 14:30
EST
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
Available online 29 January 2014
Patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy
had extremely low physical activity. They should be provided useful information
of appropriate physical movement and be supported in resolving physical and
psychological distress.
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