Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, October 26, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. RR-18

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• Alternative Title:
  Increasing Physical Activity: A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Heath, Gregory. ; Howze, Elizabeth H. ; Kahn, Emily B. ; Ramsey, Leigh Taylor ; Powell, Kenneth E. ; Stone, Elaine J. ; Brownson, Ross C.
• Corporate Authors:
  Task Force on Community Preventive Services (U.S.) ; Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (U.S.), Epidemiology Program Office., Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods. ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Description:
  The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) has conducted systematic reviews of community interventions to increase physical activity. The Task Force either strongly recommends or recommends six interventions: two informational approaches (i.e., communitywide campaigns and point-of-decision prompts to encourage use of stairs); three behavioral and social approaches (i.e., school-based physical education, social support interventions in community settings [e.g., setting up a buddy system or contracting with another person to complete specified levels of physical activity], and individually adapted health behavior change programs); and one intervention to increase physical activity by using environmental and policy approaches (i.e., creation of or enhanced access to places for physical activity, combined with informational outreach activities). The Task Force found insufficient evidence on which to base recommendations for classroom-based health education focused on information provision, behavioral skills, and social support interventions in family settings because of inconsistent findings; mass media campaigns, college-age physical education, and health education because of an insufficient number of studies; and classroom-based health education focusing on reducing television viewing and video game playing because of the lack of a demonstrated link between reduced time spent watching television or playing video games and increased physical activity. This report provides additional information regarding the recommendations, briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, and provides information that can help in applying the interventions locally.
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-42).
• Subjects:
  Evidence-Based Medicine Exercise Health Behavior Health Promotion Practice Guidelines As Topic Preventive Health Services Preventive Medicine
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2001; v. 50, no. 18
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  18
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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