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From page 1... ... Surveillance of physical activity is a core public health function that is necessary for monitoring population engagement in physical activity, including participation in physical activity initiatives. Surveillance activities are guided by standard protocols and are used to establish baseline data and to track implementation and evaluation of interventions, programs, and policies that aim to increase physical activity. Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... , an ad hoc activity affiliated with the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served as the convener for a meeting of experts brought together to identify specific actions that could improve physical activity surveillance in the United States and to suggest approaches for implementing those actions. Attendees identified 23 recommended actions to advance surveillance of physical activity in specific population subgroups and to enhance monitoring of institutional and community s upports that influence physical activity behaviors. Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... to identify specific strategies for implementing those recommended actions; • provide guidance and oversight to a consultant who will develop tools to facilitate surveillance within the topical area of community supports for active transportation, that will include developing: two brief sets of prioritized questionnaires to assess: (1) an individ o ual's perceptions of community support for physical activity; and (2) Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... Supporting Action 1.3: CDC should implement a national system for monitoring the implementation of physical activity practices at the child care center level. Strategy 2: Enhance existing surveillance systems for monitoring elementary through high school–based physical activity policies and programs. Read the entire page →
From page 5... ... by incorporating validated wearable technologies into existing surveillance systems. Supporting Action 4.1: CDC or NCI should convene an expert panel to identify specific procedures for transforming raw acceler ometry data from wrist-worn monitors into metrics that indicate adherence with guidelines for children (ages 3 to 18 years) Read the entire page →
From page 6... ... . Supporting Action 6.2: NIH, CDC, or NCCOR should convene an expert panel of researchers, practitioners, educators, and urban planners to identify features of the built environment that are most relevant for children's physical activity. Read the entire page →
From page 7... ... Supporting Action 7.1: An expert panel, including representatives from CDC, other federal and state agencies, academic partners, and/or medical professional organizations (e.g., American Heart Association, Exercise is Medicine) , should develop standards for documentation of the PAVS in the electronic health record (EHR) Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... . Supporting Action 9.2: An expert panel of stakeholders represent ing EHR vendors, health care system leaders, CDC, and patients should determine the patient populations that would benefit the most from the use of wearable physical activity devices to better measure physical activity levels and assess physical activity inter ventions among higher-risk individuals (e.g., older adults, under served individuals, or those with specific diseases) Read the entire page →
From page 9... ... about their personal physical activity behaviors, and use the results to inform development of programs aimed at promoting regular phys ical activity among providers. Supporting Action 12.2: CDC, in partnership with medical edu cational organizations (e.g., American College of Graduate Medi cal Education, American Nurses Association, American Physical Therapy Association, Association of American Medical Colleges) Read the entire page →
From page 10... ... Supporting Action 13.1: CDC; the American Heart Association; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; or HERO should con duct a comprehensive analysis of existing workplace surveillance efforts, including identifying existing gaps, by 2020. Supporting Action 13.2: CDC should convene an expert advisory group of researchers, practitioners, and representatives from the Business and Industry Sector of the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance to review the analysis (see Supporting Action 13.1 above) Read the entire page →
From page 11... ... Supporting Action 14.1: CDC, HERO, Population Health Alliance, and/or the American Heart Association should convene employers; vendors; health plans; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; and other salient stakeholders to obtain support for disseminat ing and using the consensus measures to assess physical activity, physical fitness, and sedentary behavior in worksites described in Whitsel et al. Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... of the survey. Supporting Action 16.2: Advocacy organizations, such as the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Heart Association, the Population Health Alliance, and Trust for America's Health, should partner with researchers; state, tribal, and local public health agencies; providers; health plans; and employers to communicate the benefits of the Workplace Health in America survey and garner support for future cycles of the survey. Read the entire page →
From page 13... ... Supporting Action 18.2: The Joint Call to Action to Promote Healthy Communities should lead a consensus process to recom mend GIS measures relevant to community supports for active transportation and recreation that could be adopted by local, state, and federal agencies. Supporting Action 18.3: CDC should pursue low-cost opportuni ties to assemble a national GIS database of community supports data that are already collected at the local or state level but require compilation and harmonization. Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... Strategy 20: Develop and standardize methods for linking policies, selfreported surveillance systems, and environmental geospatial data to identify opportunities to support physical activity. Supporting Action 20.1: CDC should establish partnerships between public health organizations and non-health organizations to use common geographic identifiers (GEOIDs) Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... Strategy 22: Identify methods to assess physical activity events, programs, social environments, and promotion resources. Supporting Action 22.1: NIH, CDC, or NCCOR should create a research program to develop and evaluate methods to assess high-priority physical activity events, programs, social environ ments, and promotion resources that could be used for surveillance purposes. Read the entire page →

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... Surveillance of physical activity is a core public health function that is necessary for monitoring population engagement in physical activity, including participation in physical activity initiatives. Surveillance activities are guided by standard protocols and are used to establish baseline data and to track implementation and evaluation of interventions, programs, and policies that aim to increase physical activity.

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