Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736062084 ISBN 13: 9780736062084

Verlag: Human Kinetics, 2010

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This user-friendly resource has been fully updated to reflect advances made in this evolving field. The new edition discusses emerging topics related to physical activity and public health with a renewed focus on community-wide physical activity interventions. You'll find up-to-date summaries of the national health objectives and the latest physical activity recommendations for adults, children, and older adults, which can serve as a foundation for your programs. You'll also find a more in-depth exploration of establishing partnerships in order to enhance the effectiveness and reach of your programs and an expanded discussion of program evaluation.

Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action, Second Edition, is an essential resource filled with advice, ideas, inspiration, and education to help you bring health and wellness to your community.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation's premier public health agency, working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States. CDC's focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC―to protect the health of all people. CDC keeps humanity at the forefront of its mission to ensure health protection through promotion, prevention, and preparedness.

CDC's, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is part of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. DNPAO's vision, mission, and goals are:

DNPAO's vision – a world where regular physical activity, good nutrition, and healthy weight are part of everyone's life.

DNPAO's mission – to lead strategic public health efforts to prevent and control obesity, chronic disease, and other health conditions though regular physical activity and good nutrition.

DNPAO's goals:

•Increase health-related physical activity through population-based approaches.

•Improve those aspects of dietary quality most related to the population burden of chronic disease and unhealthy child development.

•Decrease prevalence of obesity through preventing excess weight gain and maintenance of healthy weight loss.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Human Kinetics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0736062084
• ISBN 13: 9780736062084
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
• Herausgeber: Brown David R., Heath Gregory W., Martin Sarah Levin
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