Promotion of physical activity in the European region
Content analysis of 27 national policy documents
Background: Over the past years there has been increasing interest in physical activity promotion and the development of appropriate policy. So far, there has been no comprehensive overview of the…
Turning the tide
National policy approaches to increasing physical activity in seven European countries
Background: Physical inactivity is one of the four leading behavioural risk factors for non-communicable disease (NCD). Like tobacco control, increasing levels of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) will require a national…
Collaboration between the health and transport sectors in promoting physical activity
Examples from European countries
Between June 2005 and January 2006, examples of collaboration between the health sector and other relevant sectors, especially transport, to promote healthenhancing physical activity were gathered in Europe. Of particular…