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Scaling up physical activity interventions worldwide: stepping up to larger and smarter approaches to get people moving
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The global pandemic of physical inactivity requires a multisectoral, multidisciplinary public-health response. Scaling up interventions that are capable of increasing levels of physical activity in populations across the varying cultural, geographic, social, and economic contexts worldwide is challenging, but feasible. In this paper, we review the factors that could help to achieve this. We use a mixed-methods approach to comprehensively examine these factors, drawing on the best available evidence from both evidence-to-practice and practice-to-evidence methods. Policies to support active living across society are needed, particularly outside the health-care sector, as demonstrated by some of the successful examples of scale up identified in this paper. Researchers, research funders, and practitioners and policymakers in culture, education, health, leisure, planning, and transport, and civil society as a whole, all have a role. We should embrace the challenge of taking action to a higher level, aligning physical activity and health objectives with broader social, environmental, and sustainable development goals.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reis, R. S., Salvo, D., Ogilvie, D., Lambert, E. V., Goenka, S., & Brownson, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (MX)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Public Health Foundation of India (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Reis, Rodrigo S
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-09
- Volume
- 388
- Issue
- 10051
- Pages
- 1337-1348
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- PMC
- PMC5193005
- OpenAlex
- W2482857905
- Cited by
- 719
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 66 · 2023: 69 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 102 · 2019: 70 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 58 · 2016: 18
- FWCI
- 8.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Apollo
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (087636/Z/08/Z)
- National Institutes of Health (KL2TR000450, UL1TR000448)
- Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12015/6, MR/K023187/1)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/G007462/1)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA124404, P30CA091842)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK101593, P30DK092950)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024992)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Keywords
- physical activity interventions, scale-up, physical inactivity, active lifestyle, multisectoral approach, public health policy, Sustainable Development Goals, global health
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Motor Activity
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