Strategic initiatives to promote participation in physical activity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neville Owens (0000-0003-2784-4820, Deakin University, corresponding author), Neville Owen |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-218 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/11.3.213 |
| OpenAlex | W2098326325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Future reductions in the overall burden of ill-health and premature death from cardiovascular disease are likely to follow from reductions in the proportions of the population who are physically inactive. More benefit is likely to be gained from activating the sedentary than from persuading those who are already active to become more active. Population studies of exercise behaviour from New Zealand, North America and Australia have found that 25–30% of adults are sedentary in their leisure time. Australia's National Health Goals and Targets are described as an example of recent initiatives in industrialised countries to increase physical activity levels on a population-wide basis. Evaluations of recent nationwide campaigns in Australia suggest the need for a realistic awareness of what can and cannot be achieved by mass-media information and persuasion to encourage sedentary people to be more active. Primary-health-care practitioners (particularly general practitioners and those educated in the exercise and sport sciences) have a key role to play in advising and encouraging sedentary people to be more active, particularly by focusing on each of the different stages of change in physical activity (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance). Health-care practitioners should also be contributing to informed public debate not only by disseminating information on the benefits of a physically active lifestyle, but also by advocating for appropriate environmental and social changes which would encourage inactive people to be more active.
Action (physics) · Active living · Contemplation · Environmental health · Health promotion · Persuasion · Physical activity · Physical therapy · Political science · Population · Public health · Public relations · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Physical Activity and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2014 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |