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.
A federally incorporated service business
located in Ottawa, Ontario. This company
specializes in the promotion of health and fitness for Aboriginal populations
using cultural values. NWTS specializes in creating, adapting and delivering
training resources in both English and French for First Nations, Inuit and
Métis populations across Canada.
In much of America, walking – that most
basic and human method of movement, and the one most important to our health –
is all but impossible. Maybe not literally impossible, but inconvenient at
best, and tragically dangerous way too often.
iSchoolTravel is a resource for students,
parents, teachers and school administrative personnel to calculate, track and
analyse the success of school or classroom programs that encourage active and
sustainable means of students getting to and from school
The Ontario After School Collaborative is
pleased to announce the launch of the Ontario After School Portal which is part
of the Canadian Active After School Program website. On this site, you will
find information about after school programs, and tools and resources to
enhance quality in after school programs.
Conclusions: Sitting time was not
associated with obesity cross-sectionally or prospectively. Prior obesity was
prospectively associated with time spent watching TV per week but not other
types of sitting.
International Journal of Older People
Nursing, Early View (January 7, 2013)
The authors suggested that “preventing
hospital-acquired disability may require a shift in organizational values around
safety, from a solely protective approach to one that reflects an enabling
philosophy emphasizing independence and self-direction. Such a paradigm shift
would demonstrate a valuing not only of the absence of falls but also the
preservation and restoration of function.”
To overcome…. barriers, a physician might
modify an exercise prescription (for example, prescribe aquatics exercise for a
person with osteoarthritis or recommend in-home exercise for those lacking
transportation to group classes). Another approach was to reinforce the value
of exercise for managing a chronic health condition at each patient visit.
As inactivity and obesity levels continue
to rise, calls are being made for sport development action to be further
directed towards capitalizing on the value of community participation for
health and social benefits. This paper seeks to highlight a current disconnect
between physical activity and sport management research, and identify
opportunities for collaboration.
Here's how it works: During any routine
check of vital signs, a nurse or medical assistant asks how many days a week
the patient exercises and for how long. The number of minutes per week is
posted along with other vitals at the top the medical chart. So it's among the
first things the doctor sees.