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Community
Preventive Services-
Promoting Physical Activity-
Physical
Activity
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Intervention
Recommendation
The
Task Force on Community Preventive
Services has issued the following
recommendations for interventions to
increase physical activity
Sedentary
lifestyles increase the risk for heart
disease, stroke, diabetes, colon cancer,
and other diseases and conditions;
therefore, a need exists for effective
population-based interventions to
promote increased physical activity.
Policy makers are encouraged to use
these evidence-based recommendations in
conjunction with local needs and
opportunities to choose appropriate
interventions
Informational
Approaches to Increasing Physical
Activity
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Community-wide
campaigns |
Strongly
Recommended
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A
systematic review of published
studies, has found that
community-wide campaigns are
effective in getting people to be
more physically active.
In
addition to improving physical
activity, community-wide campaigns
may also improve the health of
communities by developing or
strengthening social networks and
by improving community members’
sense of cohesion and collective
ability to bring about change
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"Point-of-decision"
prompts to encourage stair use |
Recommended
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Point-of-decision
prompts that encourage people to
use the stairs instead of
elevators or escalators are
effective in getting people to be
more physically active
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Classroom-based
health education focused on
information provisio |
Insufficient
Evidence* |
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Mass
media campaigns |
Insufficient
Evidence* |
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Behavioral
and Social Approaches to Increasing
Physical Activity
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School-based
physical education (PE
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Strongly
Recommended
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Lack
of physical activity has also
contributed to a sharp rise in
childhood obesity over the last 20
years.
physical
education (PE) classes taught in
schools are effective in improving
both physical activity levels and
physical fitness among school-aged
children
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Social
support interventions in community
settings
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Strongly
Recommended
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efforts
made in community settings to
provide social support for
increasing physically activity are
effective
These
interventions focus on changing
physical activity behavior through
building, strengthening, and
maintaining social networks that
provide supportive relationships
for behavior change (e.g., setting
up a buddy system, making
contracts with others to complete
specified levels of physical
activity, or setting up walking
groups or other groups to provide
friendship and support
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Individually-adapted
health behavior change programs
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Strongly
Recommended
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individually-adapted
health behavior change programs
are effective in getting people to
be more physically active.
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Classroom-based
health education focused on
reducing television viewing and
video game playing
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Insufficient
Evidence
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College-age
health education and PE
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Insufficient
Evidence
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Family-based
social support
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Insufficient
Evidence
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Environmental
and Policy Approaches to Increasing
Physical Activity
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