title: Can Policy Alone Stop Decline of Children and Youth Fitness?
abstract: Various models and methods have been proposed to address the worldwide decline in children's and youth's physical fitness, and the social-ecological model has shown some promise. Yet, the impact of the policy intervention, 1 component of that model, has not been evaluated carefully. Using limited data from policy documents, the impact of policy related to children and youth fitness in China was examined, and it was found that the policy alone did not seem to work. Possible reasons are explored, and a call for more policy evaluation research is made.
authors.affiliation: a Shanghai University of Sport.
authors.forename: Chunhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: b Shanghai Municipal Center for Students' Physical Fitness and Health Surveillance.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010807:Physical Endurance; D010809:Physical Fitness
keywords: Intervention; obesogenic environment; policy evaluation; running