The Alberta Centre for Active Living regularly receives physical activity information from various sources, including listservs, websites, personal contacts, and e-mails.
These resources are useful for people who need evidence-based physical activity information for their work.
The information listed has been cut and pasted from its original source and is provided as information only.
Note:Where possible, we provide the DOI link
to research papers in the Info Round-Up.To use it, cut and paste the DOI into the text box on this webpage: http://dx.doi.org/. Access to research articles will be dependent
on your institutional rights.
This 132 page resource
describes: the magnitude of pedestrian deaths and injuries; key risk factors;
ways of assessing the pedestrian safety situation in a given setting and
prepare an action plan; and how to select, design, implement and evaluate
effective interventions. The manual stresses the importance of a comprehensive,
holistic approach that includes engineering, legislation and enforcement as
well as behavioural measures. It also draws attention to the benefits of
walking, which should be promoted as an important mode of transport given its
potential to improve health and preserve the environment.
Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise., Post acceptance, 8 April 2013
As a low competency of FMS reduces
children’s participation in sport and physical activity, this study paid
attention to the need to increase FMS amongst school-aged children to ensure
they have the ability to be physically active.
Presents six descriptive narratives of
specific examples of organizations across Canada, which illustrates the
successful use of evaluation findings to inform programs and practices in
chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
A webinar with CHNET Works highlighting
stories from the Casebook took place on March 7th, 2013.It was recorded as is available through Presentation
Among those with mild to moderate
disability from MS, there is sufficient evidence that exercise training is
effective for improving both aerobic capacity and muscular strength. Exercise
may improve mobility, fatigue, and health related quality of life.
A study of 300 men and women ages 18-30. “The group
was randomly assigned to a menu without calorie labels, a menu with calorie
labels, or a menu with labels for the minutes of brisk walking needed to burn
the food calories….. The menu displaying the minutes of brisk walking needed to
burn food calories led to fewer calories ordered and eaten compared with the
menu without calorie labels. A menu with calorie counts did not change eating
Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise: Post acceptance, 22 February 2013
This study is one of the first to
examine continued exposure to high sitting time and mortality in older adults.
Despite some methodological limitations, findings from this study are
important---prolonged sitting kills. While it might never be too late to reduce
sitting, even at an older age, further studies are needed to confirm that
reductions in sedentariness in older adults leads to lower mortality.
Safe and well-designed community
environments support healthful behaviors that help prevent chronic conditions
and unintentional injuries and enable older adults to be active and engaged in
community life for as long as possible.
At ages 50-72 years, 68 women who were
postmenopausal and diagnosed with osteoporosis were randomly assigned to an
exercise group or a control group… After six months, the exercising group
significantly improved in muscular strength and balance. The control group
declined in strength and balance.
Adherence was measured as the mean
proportion of sessions attended, including participants who discontinued the
intervention. Falls prevention efficacy was measured as the proportion of
fallers in the intervention versus the control group at follow-up. Various
program-related factors, including intervention duration, session frequency,
and components of the exercise regimen were examined for each of the studies.
CFLRI Research File 05/13. This Research
File explores the relationship between gas prices and physical activity; this
is explored using periods of marked and unexpected increases in gasoline
prices. A positive relationship between gasoline prices and physical activity
is observed; increased physical activity having many health benefits, reduction
in obesity being one of them.
CFLRI Lifestyle Tips 05/13. There’s some
thought-provoking research that puts forward the notion that when we rely less
on modern conveniences, we increase physical activity in our daily lives.
Researchers who wanted to gauge whether a gasoline tax could potentially be a
part of effective policy strategies to reduce obesity rates looked at whether
or not higher gasoline prices have any impact on physical activity levels.
Carl believes that we can fix almost any
societal problem by slowing down, and that many of our issues, ranging from
health to business to parenting, stem from our addiction to speed and the
desire for quick results…..
About 20 percent of U.S. adults are meeting
both the aerobic and muscle strengthening components of the federal
government's physical activity recommendations, according to a report published
in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a journal of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Understanding and interpreting research
evidence is an important part of practicing evidence-informed public health.
You need to understand some basic concepts. That’s why the National Collaborating
Centre for Methods and Tools has developed a series of short videos to explain
some important terms that you are likely to encounter when looking at research
Calculate an Odds Ratio
a Confidence Interval
Understanding a Meta-Analysis in 5 Minutes or Less
The old paradigm evaluated transport
system performance based primarily on the speed, convenience and affordability
of motor vehicle travel, and so favored automobile-oriented improvements. The
new paradigm is more comprehensive and multi-modal. It considers a broader
range of modes, objectives, impacts and transport system improvement options.