Public health surveillance of physical activity.
There is a clear public health need to measure and track physical activity behavior. Surveillance systems should be flexible enough to keep up with scientific advances in identifying dose-response relationships and in developing new assessment techniques, and new ways to assess community indicators associated with physical activity. Having a strong public health surveillance system that produces data that can be used to plan, guide, and evaluate programs is essential for increasing the prevalence of an important health-related behavior: physical activity.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health