Physical activity for children in elementary schools : Time for a rethink?

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Physical activity for children in elementary schools : Time for a rethink? Beauchamp, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1972-; Rhodes, Ryan E., 1973-; Nigg, Claudio R.

Abstract

In spite of the well-known benefits of physical activity, the vast majority of children in North America do not meet current international guidelines for accumulating sufficient health-enhancing physical activity. Indeed, despite considerable attention to this population health crisis the current prevalence of inactivity, along with its concomitant health consequences, shows little sign of abating. In this paper we identify acknowledged barriers to wide scale physical activity adoption and maintenance at the population level among children, and propose a viable tripartite framework (albeit one that would require political support) that we hope will provide the basis for debate and implementation. We emphasize that each of these considerations, in isolation, would be insufficient to substantively address the problem, but when combined would ensure that all elementary school children (without any medical contraindication) are sufficiently active, rather than the minority of this population.

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Title	Physical activity for children in elementary schools : Time for a rethink?
Alternate Title	Time for a rethink?
Creator	Beauchamp, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1972-; Rhodes, Ryan E., 1973-; Nigg, Claudio R.
Description	In spite of the well-known benefits of physical activity, the vast majority of children in North America do not meet current international guidelines for accumulating sufficient health-enhancing physical activity. Indeed, despite considerable attention to this population health crisis the current prevalence of inactivity, along with its concomitant health consequences, shows little sign of abating. In this paper we identify acknowledged barriers to wide scale physical activity adoption and maintenance at the population level among children, and propose a viable tripartite framework (albeit one that would require political support) that we hope will provide the basis for debate and implementation. We emphasize that each of these considerations, in isolation, would be insufficient to substantively address the problem, but when combined would ensure that all elementary school children (without any medical contraindication) are sufficiently active, rather than the minority of this population.
Subject	Physical Activity; Children; Population Health; Policy
Genre	Article; Postprint
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2017-02-28
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0342864
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60735
Affiliation	Education, Faculty of; Non UBC; Kinesiology, School of
Citation	Beauchamp, M.R., Rhodes, R. E., & Nigg, C. R. (2016). Physical activity for children in elementary schools: Time for a rethink? Translational Behavioral Medicine.
Publisher DOI	10.1007/s13142-016-0443-3
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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