Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Despite these documented health benefits and previous efforts to promote physical activity in the U.S. population, most Americans do not meet current public health guidelines for physical activity (CDC, 2014)
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• Reduced risk of dementia (including Alzheimer's disease) • Improved quality of life • Reduced anxiety • Reduced risk of depression • Improved sleep • Slowed or reduced weight gain • Weight loss, particularly when combined with reduced calorie intake • Prevention of weight regain following initial weight loss • Improved bone health • Improved physical function • Lower risk of falls (older adults)
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Subsequently, groups involved in the 2014 meeting, including CDC, ACSM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , the American Heart Asso BOX 1-2 Strategic Priorities to Guide Future Physical Activity Surveillance in the United States, as Identified in Fulton et al.
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. As a result, in April 2017, the Physical Activity and Health Innovation Collaborative, 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 more than 40 experts who were brought together to identify specific actions that could improve physical activity surveillance in the United States and to suggest approaches for implementing those actions.
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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)
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• there a likely receptivity to the recommended strategy for those who Is will act on it? Impact • there potential for impacting practice (e.g., public health transportation, Is etc.)
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• The major focus of this study was the creation of a more robust system for surveillance of physical activity to support public health practice by enhancing what is currently measured. Accordingly, the committee strove to consider the needs and interests of a broad array of stakeholders, collaborators, and professionals whose inter ests, skills, and needs would ultimately determine the extent to which the committee's recommendations would be acted upon.
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Multiple stakeholders will be asked to share data, make new investments, and reallocate existing resources. • Although the focus of this study is on creating a more robust physi cal activity surveillance system to support public health practice,
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A total of 59 implementation actions were identified: 16 for children, 16 for health care, 12 for workplaces, and 15 for community supports for physical activity. The committee's task also included providing guidance and oversight to a consultant hired to develop tools to facilitate surveillance, specifically within the topical area of community supports for active transportation, including prioritized questionnaires and "how-to" protocols.
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1988. Public health surveillance in the United States.
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