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7 Institutional Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity
7 Institutional Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity
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An essential part of this approach is physical education, the majority of which is spent keeping students active. Nihiser discussed how the recommendations in that report helped inform and strengthen the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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. The Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program The multicomponent approach recommended in the Midcourse report helped inform and strengthen the recommendation of CDC and SHAPE America that schools develop and implement the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CDC, 2013)
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the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition's Presidential Youth Fitness Program.4 As part of the CDC's State Public Health Actions program, Nihiser said, CDC provided funding to all 50 states for the first time in 2013 to address physical activity in schools. All states are funded to address both physical education and recess policies at the state and district levels; 32 states receive additional funding to work with targeted districts on providing professional development and technical assistance for the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program.
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Innovative Approaches to School-Based Physical Activity Nihiser reiterated that physical education is the foundation of the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program's five-component approach. She stated that there has been a big push across the country to implement the recommendation in the Midcourse report to ensure not only that adequate time is provided for physical education in the school day, but also that students are active during physical education classes (HHS, 2012)
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Free Resources to Implement the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program In conclusion, Nihiser highlighted some free resources that schools, districts, and states can tap to support implementation of the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program, all of which are available online.5 They include A Guide for Developing Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs, which provides schools with a template and process for program 5 See http://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/physicalactivity/cspap.htm (accessed September 8, 2015)
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"This is pervasive throughout the contemporary workplace," Pronk said. Other important shifts in the workplace include changes in the physical locations where people work, with many people working via remote access; an aging and multigenerational workforce, with people working longer before retiring because of financial challenges; and variations in the extent to which media and communication technologies reach different types of workers to promote physical activity.
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. At the same time, low levels of physical activity, or inactivity, have been associated with many negative health outcomes, including overweight and obesity, creating additional health care costs.
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. In addition to building physical activity into either the workday or the workplace, other ways to promote physical activity among workers include using technology creatively (e.g., using wearable tracking devices such as pedometers so that workers can measure their own physical activity)
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reveal that pedometer programs, active travel (biking or walking to and from work) , and workplace coaching can increase daily physical activity, a number of barriers to physical activity exist at multiple levels of influence (Edmunds et al., 2013)
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2009. Physical activity promotion in business and industry: Evidence, context, and recommendations for a national plan.
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PANEL DISCUSSION Following Nico Pronk's presentation, he and Nihiser participated in a panel discussion with the audience. Data on the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program An audience member asked Nihiser whether any datasets are now or will be available to help in identifying schools that are implementing the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program.
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For this purpose, CDC is using the Guide for Developing Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs, a publication she had mentioned during her presentation, and has developed a 1-day workshop that is currently being marketed to state health department grantees. Additionally, CDC has been working with the American Cancer Society, which every few years provides all-day trainings-of-trainers for university staff on CDC tools and resources related to school health.
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INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 119 Interventions to Reduce Uninterrupted Sitting Time at Work When asked whether there are any data on interventions to reduce uninterrupted sitting time at work, Pronk replied that an "emerging" set of cross-sectional studies is associating prolonged sitting time with poor health outcomes. Additionally, a small set of intervention studies has begun to examine permissive activity workstation designs, whereby a sedentary worker can either stand up in place, walk in place, or pedal in place to break up uninterrupted sitting time.
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