Results from Colombia’s 2018 report card on physical activity for children and youth
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Physical activity (PA) promotion across the lifespan is a key strategy for the prevention of non-communicable diseases in the public health agenda in Colombia.1 However, the sparse national data available before 2015 indicated that PA levels among Colombian adolescents were low and sedentary behaviors were highly prevalent.2 As a result of the improvement in national surveillance, Colombia has national data on PA-related indicators for all ages between 5 and 17 years, for the first time. These data informed the third version of the Report Card on Physical Activity (Figure 1). The purpose of this article is to summarize the methodology and results of the Colombian 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth.
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China's low prevalence estimates suggest that most of its approximately 160 million 10- to 19-year-olds in 2015 did not engage in enough MVPA for health benefit.
“the low prevalence estimates observed here suggest that the majority of a large number of children and youth (approximately 160 million of 10-to 19-y-olds in 2015) 52 are not engaging in sufficient amounts of MVPA to benefit their health.”
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- Authors
- González, S. A., Triana, C. A., Abaunza, C., Aldana, L., Arias-Gómez, L. F., Bermúdez, J., Camargo Lemos, D. M., Cuya, J. C., Cohen, D. D., Correa-Bautista, J. E., Escobar, I. D., Fajardo, K. L., García, J., Gámez, R., Gómez, J. A., Herazo Beltrán, Y., Lizarazo, M. J., Lozano, O., Martínez, P. A., Mora, M., Páez, D. C., Ramírez-Vélez, R., Rodríguez, M. I., Ruiz, N., Tovar, G., Uriza, J. P., & Sarmiento, O. L.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Gobierno de Colombia (CO)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Physical Activity and Health
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Published
- 2018-01-02
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- s2
- Pages
- S335-S337
- ISSN
- 1543-3080 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-5474
- OpenAlex
- W2902811596
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 1.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Physical Activity and Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Repositorio Institucional E-DocUR (Universidad Del Rosario) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- physical activity, children and young people, sedentary behavior, non-communicable disease prevention, national surveillance data, Colombia, physical activity promotion, health indicators
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