Asia Pacific Physical Activity Network

Publications

AP-PAN e-newsletters

The AP-PAN e-newsletter is a regular, up to date and informative publication on the latest developments in physical activity and health for the Asia Pacific region.

Issue 12 - March/April 2009
Issue 11 - January/February 2009
Issue 10 - September/October 2008
Issue 9 - May/June 2008
Issue 8 - January/February 2008
Issue 7 - November/December 2007
Issue 6 - September/October 2007
Issue 5 - August 2007
Issue 4 - July 2007
Issue 3 - June 2007
Issue 2 - May 2007
Issue 1 - April 2007

Physical activity and health evidence

Bauman AE. (2004) Updating the evidence that physical activity is good for health: an epidemiological review 2000-2003. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 6-19.

Bull FC, Bauman AE, Bellew B, Brown W. (2004) Getting Australia Active II: An update of evidence on physical activity for health. National Public Health Partnership (NPHP), Melbourne.

Department of Health. Physical Activity, Health Improvement and Prevention. (2004) At least five a week. Evidence on the impact physical activity and its relationship to health. A report from the Chief Medical Officer. Department of Health, London, UK.
Available at www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/08/09/81/04080981.pdf accessed October 2004.

US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHS). (1996) Physical activity and health: a report of the Surgeon General. US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA.
Available at www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/sgr/sgr.htm accessed May 2006.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2005) The health benefits of physical activity in developing countries. A review of the epidemiological evidence. A report prepared by Bauman A, Lewicka M with technical assistance by Armstrong T, commissioned by WHO Headquarters/Geneva and funded by the WHO Centre for Health Development Kobe/Japan.

Physical activity measurement, prevalence and surveillance

Bull FC, Maslin T, Armstrong T (2009). Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ): Nine Country Reliability and Validity Study. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 6: 790-804.

Bauman A, Bull F, Chey T, Craig CL, Ainsworth BE, Sallis JF, Bowles HR, Hagstromer M, Sjostrom M, Pratt M, Ips Group. (2009) The International Prevalence Study on Physical Activity: results from 20 different countries. International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, 6: 21.

Guthold R, Ono T, Strong K, Chatterji S, Morabia, A. (2008). Worldwide variability in physical inactivity: A 51-country survey. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 34(6): 486–494.

Armstrong T, Bull F. (2006) Development of the World Health Organization Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ). Journal of Public Health, 14(2), 66-70.

Bauman AE, Phongsavan P, Schoeppe S, Owen N. (2006) Physical activity measurement – a primer for health promotion. Health Promotion & Education, 9(2): 92-103.

Bull FC, Armstrong TP, Dixon T, Ham S, Neiman A, Pratt M. (2004) Physical inactivity. In: Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease attributable to selected major risk factors. Ezzati M, Lopez AD, Rodgers A, Murray CJL eds. World Health Organization, Geneva.

Craig CL, Russel CJ, Cameron C, Bauman A. (2004) Twenty-year trends in physical activity among Canadian adults. Canadian Journal of Public Health. Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique, 95(1), 59-63.

Craig CL, Marshall AL, Sjöström M, Bauman A, Booth ML, Ainsworth BE, Pratt M, Ekelund U, Yngve A, Sallis JF, Oja P. (2003) International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 1381-1395.

Rütten A, Abu-Omar K. (2004) Prevalence of physical activity in the European Union. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin, 49, 281-289.

Physical activity guidelines

Pate RR, Pratt MD, Blair SN, et al. (1995) Physical activity and public health: a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association/JAMA, 273(6), 4002-407.

Bauman A, Schoeppe S, Phongsavan P. (2006) Physical activity guidelines for the Western Pacific Region - Examples of current guidelines and recommendations. A report prepared for the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines.

Physical activity policy

Bull FC, Bellew B, Schoppe S, Bauman AE. (2004) Developments in national physical activity policy: an international review and recommendations towards better practice. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7(1), 93-104.

Lankenau B. Solari A. Pratt M. (2004) International physical activity policy development: a commentary. Public Health Reports, 119(3):352-5.

Matson-Koffman DM. Brownstein JN. Neiner JA. Greaney ML. (2005) A site-specific literature review of policy and environmental interventions that promote physical activity and nutrition for cardiovascular health: what works? American Journal of Health Promotion, 19(3):167-93.

Schoeppe S, Bauman A, Bull F. (2004) International review of national physical activity policy – a literature review. Report of the Centre for Physical Activity and Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney.
Available at www.cpah.health.usyd.edu.au/pdfs/2004_PA_Policy.pdf accessed July 2006.

Shephard RJ, Lankenau B, Pratt M, Neiman A, Puska P, Benaziza H, Bauman A. (2004) Physical activity policy development: a synopsis of the WHO/CDC consultation, September 29 through October 2, 2002, Atlanta . Public Health Reports, 119(3):346-51.

Sallis JF, Bauman A, Pratt M. (1998) Environmental and policy interventions to promote physical activity. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 15(4):379-97.

Blair SN. Booth M. Gyarfas I. Iwane H. Marti B. Matsudo V. Morrow MS. Noakes T. Shephard R. (1996) Development of public policy and physical activity initiatives internationally. Sports Medicine, 21(3):157-63.

Washington State Department of Health (2005). Nutrition and physical activity: a policy resource guide. Washington State Department of Health, Washington, USA.
Available at www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/steps/publications/nutrition_activity_policy_guide_final.pdf accessed May 2006.

Effectiveness of and best practice in physical activity interventions

World Health Organisation (2009). Interventions on Diet and Physical Activity: What Works. Implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Available at http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/whatworks/en/index.html

Blamey A, Mutrie N. (2004) Changing the individual to promote health-enhancing physical activity: the difficulties of producing evidence and translating it into practice. Journal of Sports Sciences, 22, 741-754.

Bull FC. (2003) Review of best practice and recommendations for interventions on physical activity. A report for the Premier’s Physical Activity Taskforce on behalf of the Evaluation and Monitoring Working Group. Western Australia Government, Perth Western Australia.

Bull FC, Bauman AE, Bellew B, Brown W. (2004) Getting Australia Active II: an update of evidence on physical activity for health. Melbourne : National Public Health Partnership (NPHP).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC. (2002) US Guide to Community Preventive Services. Chapter: Physical Activity. A systematic review of the effectiveness of selected population-based interventions to promote physical activity. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA.
Available at www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/default.htm accessed May 2006.

Cyarto EV, Moorhead GE, Brown WJ. (2004) Updating the evidence relating to physical activity intervention studies in older people. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 30-42.

Eden KB, Orleans CT, Mulrow CD, Pender NJ, Teutsch SM. (2002) Does counseling by clinicians improve physical activity? A summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine, 137, 208-215.

Health Development Agency. (2005) The effectiveness of public health interventions for inceasing physical activity among adults: a review of reviews. 2nd edition February. London : Health Development Agency.

Kahn EB, Ramsey LT, Brownson RC, Health GW, Howze EH, Powell KE et al. (2002) The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity. A systematic review by the U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 22 (4S), 73-102.

Marshall AL, Owen N, Bauman AE. (2004) Mediated approaches for influencing physical activity: update of the evidence on mass media, print, telephone and website delivery of interventions. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 74-80.

Miller YD, Dunstan DW. (2004) The effectiveness of physical activity interventions for the treatment of overweight and obesity and type 2 diabetes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 52-59.

Smith B. (2004) Promotion of physical activity in primary health care: update of the evidence on interventions. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 67-73.

Timperio A, Salmon J, Ball K. (2004) Evidence-based strategies to promote physical activity among children, adolescents and young adults: review and update. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Physical Activity Suppl, 7 (1), 20-29.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2008) Review of best practice in interventions to promote physical activity in developing countries. A report prepared by Bauman A, Schoeppe S, Lewicka M with technical assistance by Armstrong T, commissioned by WHO Headquarters/Geneva and funded by the WHO Centre for Health Development Kobe/Japan. Available at http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/bestpracticePA2008.pdf

Physical activity programs – country case studies

World Health Organization (WHO) (2007) A guide for population-based approaches to increasing levels of physical activity: implementation of the WHO global strategy on diet, physical activity and health. Available at http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/PA-promotionguide-2007.pdf

Bauman A, McLean G, Hurdle D, Walker S, Boyd J, van Aalst I, Carr H. (2003) Evaluation of the national ‘Push Play campaign in NZ – creating population awareness of physical activity. The Medial Journal, 116 (1179).

Physical activity evaluation

US Department of Health and Human Services. (2002) Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook. Atlanta, GA , Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Costs of physical inactivity

Colditz G. (1999) Economic costs of obesity and inactivity. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 31 (11), S663-S667.

Pratt M, Macera, Wang G. (2000) Higher direct medical costs associated with physical inactivity. The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 28 (10), 63-70.

Stephenson J, Bauman A, Armstrong T, Smith B, Bellew B. (2000) The costs of illness attributable to physical inactivity. A report prepared for The Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and the Australian Sports Commission.

Non-communicable Diseases

Leeder S, Raymond S, Greenberg H, Liu H, Esson K. (2004) A race against time: the challenge of cardiovascular disease in developing economies. Columbia University, New York.

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). (2002) Obesity in the Pacific. Too big to ignore. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea.

Wild S, Roglic G, Green A, Sicree R, King H. (2004) Global prevalence of diabetes: estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030. Diabetes Care, 27, 5, 1047-1053.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2005) Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment. WHO Global Report. World health Organization, Geneva.

World Health Organization/Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO/WPRO). (2003) Ministerial Round Table on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, Fifty-third Session, Kyoto , 16-20 September 2002. Manila , World Health Organization/Regional Office for the Western Pacific.