Supporting Public Health Priorities: Recommendations for Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion in Schools

Hills, Andrew P.; Dengel, Donald R.; Lubans, David R.

doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2014.09.010

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“…Ideally, HLM should be delivered where individuals live, work and go to school, promoting immersion in a culture of health and wellness. 11,18,19 As such, public park spaces create an advantageous platform for a proactive healthcare system to deliver HLM. Public parks have been described as follows: "Open space opportunities for active or passive recreation.…”

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Public Park Spaces as a Platform to Promote Healthy Living: Introducing a HealthPark Concept

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Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

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The concept of Healthy Living (HL) as a primary medical intervention continues to gain traction, and rightfully so. Being physically active, consuming a nutritious diet, not smoking and maintaining an appropriate body weight constitute the HL polypill, the foundation of HL medicine (HLM). Daily use of the HL polypill, working toward optimal dosages, portends profound health benefits, substantially reducing the risk of chronic disease [i.e., cardiovascular disease (CVD), pulmonary disease, metabolic syndromes, certain cancers, etc.] and associated adverse health consequences. To be effective and proactive, our healthcare system must rethink where its primary intervention, HLM, is delivered. Waiting for individuals to come to the traditional outpatient setting is an ineffective approach as poor lifestyle habits are typically well established by the time care is initiated. Ideally, HLM should be delivered where individuals live, work and go to school, promoting immersion in a culture of health and wellness. To this end, there is a growing interest in the use of public parks as a platform to promote the adoption of HL behaviors. The current perspectives paper provides a brief literature review on the use of public parks for HL interventions and introduces a new HealthPark model being developed in Chicago.

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Public Park Spaces as a Platform to Promote Healthy Living: Introducing a HealthPark Concept

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“…While regular exercise is recommended to all as part of a healthy lifestyle [24,[36][37][38][39][40][41], the extent to which already-healthy young adults might benefit from regular exercise is less clear. Here, within a population of young adults of reported excellent health, regular exercise is associated with lower resting heart rate, a useful indicator of overall cardiovascular health.…”

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Exercise and lifestyle predictors of resting heart rate in healthy young adults

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2016

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Physical exercise is well-understood to provide significant health benefits, through physiological adaptations induced by the repeated exertion stress exercise imposes on our systems. Chief among these are cardiovascular adaptations to exercise, including adjustments of cardiac parameters such as stroke volume, heart rate, and maximal cardiac output. It is commonly assumed that aerobic forms of exercise provide greater cardiovascular benefits than do non-aerobic forms of exercise. To test this assumption, exercise habits and resting heart rate were examined in a large population of healthy young adults. 90% of subjects reported regular physical exercise, with aerobic exercise constituting 64% of all exercise hours. Subjects with a history of smoking exhibited higher resting heart rates than those with no smoking history, an effect which was due primarily to a reduction in exercise hours by smokers than due to a smoking habit itself. While both total exercise amount and aerobic exercise amount were significantly and negatively related to resting heart rate, total exercise amount was a better overall predictor of resting heart rate than was aerobic exercise amount. All forms of exercise were associated with cardiovascular health, with cardiovascular benefits accruing according to the amount of exercise performed, even in optimally healthy young adults.

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“…Insights from existing literature also suggest that lack government support and funding is a primary barrier to the implementation of school health promotion (Hills et al, 2015;Melo et al, 2013;Seigart et al, 2013). Although the government, especially the government of Punjab province, announced education and health as top priorities, the respondents believe these are just political slogans.…”

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Identifying barriers to implementation of health promoting schools in Pakistan: The use of qualitative content analysis and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Haider

2018

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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Acknowledging government's failure to implement health promotion approach in Pakistani schools, and recognizing the need for research in this area, this study was initiated with the purpose of providing exploratory insights into the barriers that are hindering implementation of health promoting schools. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used. Qualitative study involved interviews and content analysis. Quantitative analysis used multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method, called as Fuzzy AHP. Ten important barriers were identified in qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis identified five most important barriers; little infrastructure, poor behavior of community, lack of govt. support, lack of health promotion skills, and lack of legislation and policy. Although the results of this research are promising for targeting some specific barriers to HPS, how these barriers can be overcome is less clear. Future researchers can approach the experts for identifying possible solutions to these problems. This research informs that any effort towards implementation of health promoting schools in Pakistan will require contemplating barriers identified in this research. This research contributes to school health promotion literature by identifying possible variables which can impede the implementation of HPS approach. Moreover, the application of Fuzzy AHP technique provides sophistication in determining the relative importance of barriers to health promoting schools.

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Supporting Public Health Priorities: Recommendations for Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion in Schools

Cited by 465 publications

References 56 publications

Public Park Spaces as a Platform to Promote Healthy Living: Introducing a HealthPark Concept

Public Park Spaces as a Platform to Promote Healthy Living: Introducing a HealthPark Concept

Exercise and lifestyle predictors of resting heart rate in healthy young adults

Identifying barriers to implementation of health promoting schools in Pakistan: The use of qualitative content analysis and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

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