The implications of megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation for changes in global physical activity

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• Alternative Title:
  Lancet
• Personal Author:
  Pratt, Michael ; Sarmiento, Olga L ; Montes, Felipe ; Ogilvie, David ; Marcus, Bess H ; Perez, Lilian G ; Brownson, Ross C
• Corporate Authors:
  Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group
• Description:
  Physical inactivity accounts for more than 3 million deaths per year, most from non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. We used reviews of physical activity interventions and a simulation model to examine how megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation directly and indirectly affect levels of physical activity across countries of low, middle, and high income. The model suggested that the direct and potentiating eff ects of information and communication technology, especially mobile phones, are nearly equal in magnitude to the mean eff ects of planned physical activity interventions. The greatest potential to increase population physical activity might thus be in creation of synergistic policies in sectors outside health including communication and transportation. However, there remains a glaring mismatch between where studies on physical activity interventions are undertaken and where the potential lies in low-income and middle-income countries for population-level effects that will truly affect global health.
• Subjects:
  Communication Exercise Global Health Humans Information Services Motor Activity Socioeconomic Factors Technology Transportation
• Source:
  Lancet. 380(9838):282-293
• Pubmed ID:
  22818940
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4843126
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  MC_U106179474/MRC_/Medical Research CouncilUnited Kingdom/ ; P30 DK092950/DK/NIDDK NIH HHSUnited States/ ; BHF_/British Heart FoundationUnited Kingdom/ ; U48 DP001903/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; P50 CA095815/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48/DP001903/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; WT_/Wellcome TrustUnited Kingdom/ ; MC_U106188470/MRC_/Medical Research CouncilUnited Kingdom/ ; U48 DP000060/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  380
• Issue:
  9838
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b179951765cfea54b3feced917f9507a2e878697caa2a72c27454502e7ddf72c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39089/cdc_39089_DS1.pdf
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