| Title: |
Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group. |
| Authors: |
DiPietro, Loretta; Al-Ansari, Salih Saad; Biddle, Stuart JH; Borodulin, Katja; Bull, Fiona C; Buman, Matthew P; Cardon, Greet; Carty, Catherine; Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Chastin, Sebastien; Chou, Roger; Dempsey, Paddy C; Ekelund, Ulf; Firth, Joseph; Friedenreich, Christine M; Garcia, Leandro; Gichu, Muthoni; Jago, Russell; Katzmarzyk, Peter T; Lambert, Estelle; Leitzmann, Michael; Milton, Karen; Ortega, Francisco B; Ranasinghe, Chathuranga; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Tiedemann, Anne; Troiano, Richard P; van der Ploeg, Hidde P; Willumsen, Juana F |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature; //doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01042-2 |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
Physical activity; Recommendations; Research; Sedentary behavior; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Chronic Disease; Persons with Disabilities; Exercise; Female; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Population Health; Postpartum Period; Pregnancy; Pregnant People; World Health Organization |
| Description: |
Funder: Public Health Agency of Canada ; Funder: Government of Norway ; BACKGROUND: In July, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) commenced work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health and established a Guideline Development Group (GDG) comprising expert public health scientists and practitioners to inform the drafting of the 2020 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior. The overall task of the GDG was to review the scientific evidence and provide expert advice to the WHO on the amount of physical activity and sedentary behavior associated with optimal health in children and adolescents, adults, older adults (> 64 years), and also specifically in pregnant and postpartum women and people living with chronic conditions or disabilities. METHODS: The GDG reviewed the available evidence specific to each sub-population using systematic protocols and in doing so, identified a number of gaps in the existing literature. These proposed research gaps were discussed and verified by expert consensus among the entire GDG. RESULTS: Evidence gaps across population sub-groups included a lack of information on: 1) the precise shape of the dose-response curve between physical activity and/or sedentary behavior and several of the health outcomes studied; 2) the health benefits of light-intensity physical activity and of breaking up sedentary time with light-intensity activity; 3) differences in the health effects of different types and domains of physical activity (leisure-time; occupational; transportation; household; education) and of sedentary behavior (occupational; screen time; television viewing); and 4) the joint association between physical activity and sedentary time with health outcomes across the life course. In addition, we acknowledge the need to conduct more population-based studies in low- and middle-income countries and in people living with disabilities and/or chronic disease, and to identify how various sociodemographic factors (age, sex, race/ethnicity, ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf; text/xml |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
1042; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/313394 |
| DOI: |
10.17863/CAM.60501 |
| Availability: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/313394; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.60501 |
| Rights: |
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.2005FE3E |
| Database: |
BASE |