Improving active travel to school and its surveillance: an overlooked opportunity in health promotion and chronic disease prevention

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• Alternative Title:
  Transl Behav Med
• Personal Author:
  George, Stephanie M. ; Sliwa, Sarah A. ; Cornett, Kelly A. ; Do, Van ; Bremer, Andrew A. ; Berrigan, David
• Description:
  Increasing active travel to school (ATS) could reduce the deficit in youth physical activity participation; however, surveillance of ATS is limited. Given that ATS contributes to our understanding of children's physical activity patterns nationwide, is influenced by local contexts and state laws, and occurs within communities, surveillance could be informative at the national, state, and local levels. Following a National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research workshop, this commentary offers insights into strengthening surveillance and data collection of ATS behavior as well as ATS environmental, policy, and program supports.
• Subjects:
  Active Travel Adolescent Article Child Chronic Disease Exercise Health Promotion Humans Measurement Pediatric Obesity Physical Activity Public Health School Schools Youth

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• Source:
  Transl Behav Med. 12(7):810-815
• Pubmed ID:
  35665832
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9653005
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4eef72ec9591c75009f34f3dcf9908dd2d047178903ed84d1f5fd2c8713f62b9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122270/cdc_122270_DS1.pdf
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