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Active Aging | Children & Youth | Community Design | Physical Activity Data | Physical Activity Guides | Active Aging From the Field: Four Communities Implement Active Aging Program [PDF]. (2002) Partnership for Prevention. This report, intended for program planners, describes four communities' efforts to promote active aging and suggests tips for success. National Blueprint: Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older [PDF]. (March 2001) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This guide provides organizations, associations and agencies with strategies to help people age 50 and older increase their physical activity. The information is based on input from more than 65 individuals representing 48 organizations with expertise in health, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, gerontology/geriatrics, clinical science, public policy, marketing, medical systems, community organization, and environmental issues. Program Evaluation: Measuring the Value of Active Aging [PDF]. (2002) Partnership for Prevention. This guide to program evaluation is a companion to Creating Communities for Active Aging. It provides a detailed description of program evaluation for managers and staff from active aging programs as well as other stakeholders. Promoting Active Lifestyles Among Older Adults [PDF]. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This web site page provides referenced statistics on physical activity and older adults and includes strategies for achieving the goal of a more physically active older adult population.
Children & Youth After School Physical Activity Website. This site provides detailed instructions, including videos, about after school physical activity options. The games are designed for students in grades 4-8. California Walk to School Headquarters Web Site. The site provides all the materials, ideas and technical assistance individuals will need to get a Walk to School program started in their community. Can't Get There from Here: The Declining Independent Mobility of California's Children and Youth [PDF]. (September 2003) Surface Transportation Policy Project, Latino Issues Forum and the Transportation and Land Use Coalition. This report identifies how transportation options for California's children and youth have rapidly declined, forcing children to choose between navigating dangerous streets on foot or by bike or depending on parents for a ride. Fit Source. Fit Source is an interactive Web site for child care and after school providers looking for resources to help address the nation's childhood obesity epidemic. Providers will find: games and activities, lesson plans, healthy recipes, information for parents, fitness campaigns, funding strategies, informational resources, and Spanish language Web sites. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Child Care Bureau. International Walk to School. This site includes resources, links and a worldwide perspective on Walk to School. Issue Brief: The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity. (February 2004) Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. This issue brief explores the role that children's media use plays in the rising rates of childhood obesity. Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 Campaign ®. Keep Kids Alive Drive 25® is a safety campaign targeting observance of the residential speed limit. The campaign goal is to unite neighborhoods and communities throughout the U.S. with a consistent message about safe driving. Kid Tribe. Kid Tribe offers solutions to the obesity epidemic by providing an environment where it's hip to be healthy. Kids Walk to School. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Information on this web site page includes background on walking to school and links to resources, including a downloadable PowerPoint presentation that may be presented to a neighborhood, school, or community to increase knowledge and interest in participating in a Walk & Bicycle to School program. Kids Walk-to-School: A Guide to Promote Walking to School [PDF]. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This guidebook helps communities plan and implement a yearlong walk-to-school initiative. Guidebook contents include safety tips walking, biking, school bus safety and stranger danger tips, along with ideas on how to make walking to school an exciting part of a child's day. School Wellness Policies. This site provides links to a comprehensive set of model nutrition and physical activity policies that school districts may choose to use. Skillastics®. Skillastics® games educational products offer a new approach for physical fitness instructors working with children. For over 18 years Sandy Slade has been working nationwide with children, teens, and their instructors and has created games that help youth view fitness and exercise as fun. SPARK. The focus of SPARK is the development of healthy lifestyles, motor skills and movement knowledge, and social and personal skills for children and teachers everywhere. State Study Proves Physically Fit Kids Perform Better Academically. (December 2002) California Department of Education. This press release reports findings from a statewide study that show a distinct relationship between academic achievement and the physical fitness of California's public school students. Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health: Adolescents and Young Adults. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This two-page factsheet provides an overview on physical activity behaviors of adolescents and young adults, highlights the benefits of physical activity, and identifies steps that communities can take. Transportation Tools to Improve Children's Health and Mobility: Look What California is Doing [PDF]. This factsheet outlines the need for safe routes to school and the importance of promoting walking and bicycling for children. It also identifies the role that transportation professional can play in this arena.
Community Design Active Living Resource Center. National Center for Bicycling & Walking (NCBW). The Active Living Resource Center provides technical assistance to create active communities and resources to help you make walking and bicycling part of your community's healthier lifestyle. Active Living Storybank. The Active Living Storybank is a searchable database of projects, programs and initiatives around the country promoting health through changes in the built environment. Search the Storybank by state, activity or setting. Americans' Attitudes Toward Walking and Creating More Walkable Communities. (April 2003) Surface Transportation Policy Project. A national random sample telephone survey found that Americans would like to walk more than they are currently, but they are held back by poorly designed communities. The survey documents public support for better walking communities and specific policies such as designing streets for slower traffic speeds; using more federal dollars to make walking safer from traffic; and creating walking-friendly routes to school for children. Community Design and Transportation Policies: New Ways to Promote Physical Activity. (February 2001) The Physician and Sports Medicine. This article discusses how public health, city planning, and transportation officials can work together to reduce the burden of physical inactivity by promoting the integration of walking and bicycling into everyday activities. Green Visions Plan for 21st Century Southern California. In late 2003, Southern California's state land conservancies partnered to provide a guide to habitat conservation, watershed health and recreational open space for the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and to design planning and decision-support tools to nurture a living green matrix for southern California. The site provides information on the Green Vision Plan, work program, technical reports and interactive plan inventory. Healthy Community Design: Success Stories from State and Local Leaders [PDF]. (December 2004). Active Living Leadership. This report profiles the efforts of elected and appointed government leaders who are supporting healthy community design that provides more opportunities for people to engage in routine physical activity all across the nation. Healthy Transportation Network Web Site. The web site provides model case studies ("success stories") for local elected officials and city managers who seek to design more walk- and bike-friendly communities. The site also offers resources for land use planners and transporation engineers. If Health Matters: Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Planning [PDF]. (April 2004) Victoria Transport Policy Institute. This paper investigates how transport policy and planning practices would change if public health objectives received greater priority. Conventional transportation decision-making focuses on some health impacts but overlooks the negative health impacts resulting from less physically active travel. LEED-ND Report on Public Health & The Built Environment. (June 2006) Public Health Study: Now Available on the LEED-ND Website. Interested in understanding how neighborhood design and location helps to create healthier communities? This report focuses on five public health topics – respiratory and cardiovascular health, fatal and non-fatal injuries, physical activity, social capital and mental health. In addition, the report looks at the impact of each of these five areas on special populations, including children, the elderly, and minorities. Finally, the report pulls all of the research together and presents a comprehensive picture of the elements of the built environment that have the greatest positive impact on these public health outcomes. This report not only summarizes the impact of the built environment on public health topics but also discusses how this information can be translated into positive changes to the built environment. Managing Active Living Communities [PDF]. (2004) International City/County Management Association (ICMA). This 20-page report is a practical handbook for implementing active living strategies in local governments. It provides a practical management framework of eight steps that local government leaders can use to craft strategies that support healthier communities. Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl: A National Analysis of Physical Activity, Obesity, and Chronic Disease. (September 2003) Surface Transportation Policy Project. This report presents the first national study to show a clear association between the type of place people live and their activity levels, weight, and health. The study found that people living in counties marked by sprawling development are likely to walk less and weigh more than people who live in less sprawling counties. Odyssey Safe Routes to Healthy Foods Toolkit. Odyssey's toolkit assists public health professionals and others in visioning, assessing, planning, encouraging and implementing healthy, active communities throughout California and beyond. The toolkit includes education and visioning tools, policy and participation tools, case studies, data tools, social marketing tools and additional resources. The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles [PDF]. (July 2004) Prevention Institute. This document profiles 11 communities across the country that show how the built environment can positively influence the health of community residents. The report describes the geographic area and changes that were made; the process required to implement the changes; documented impacts; lessons learned; supporting research that documents the connection between the built environment and health, and; next steps.
Physical Activity Data Physical Activity Levels Among Children Aged 9—13 Years — United States, 2002. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a longitudinal survey with a nationally representative sample of children aged 9 through 13 years and their parents to provide a baseline assessment of physical activity levels among children aged 9 through 13 years, CDC conducted the YMC (YMCLS), http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5233.pdf [PDF]. Prevalence of Physical Activity, Including Lifestyle Activities Among Adults — United States, 2000-2001. (August 15, 2003). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This report presents data from responses to the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) leisure-time activity questions and the updated lifestyle activity questions of the 2001 BRFSS to compare overall U.S. and state-specific prevalence estimates for adults who engaged in physical activities consistent with recommendations from both survey years. The Costs of Obesity: Topline Report. [PDF] (April 2002). This report discusses the economic costs of physical inactivity, obesity, and overweight in California adults as it relates to health care, Workers' Compensation, and lost productivity. U.S. Physical Activity Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To find out what percent of the population in a city or state is physically active, visit the new physical activity statistics database on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's web site. Search by demographics and physical activity levels for a metropolitan area, state, or national estimate.
Physical Activity Guides Governor's Vision for a Healthy California [PDF]. The Govenor has outlined an ambitious, forward-reaching guide to challenge all of us - government, business, community organizations and individuals - to make California a national model for healthy living. Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). Task Force on Community Preventive Services. This guide is a valuable resource, providing public health decision makers with recommendations regarding population-based interventions to promote health and to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death, appropriate for use by communities and health care systems. Systematic reviews are conducted to evaluate the evidence of effectiveness of various interventions which is then translated into a recommendation or a finding of insufficient evidence. Physical Activity for Everyone: The Importance of Physical Activity The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a comprehensive section on physical activity, which explains why you should be active, how inactivity may hurt your health, and how physical activity can benefit everyone. Physical Activity & Public Health Guidelines. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have updated physical activity guidelines. These guidelines outline exercise recommendations for healthy adults and older adults and are an update from the 1995 guidelines. Promoting Active Living Communities: A Guide to Marketing and Communication [PDF]. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This guide provides communication tools to speak to your community about the value of active living. It is a step-by-step approach to planning marketing and communications programs with examples of other programs and tools and resources to assist your program. Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action. (1999) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This guide shows how to facilitate behavior change both from an individual and a community perspective. Using a social marketing and behavioral science approach to intervention planning, this guide provides a step-by-step approach to addressing your target population's understanding and skills, the social networks, the physical environments in which they live and work, and the policies that most influence their actions.
Worksite Wellness Take Action! Web Site. The California Center for Physical Activity houses the Take Action! web site, which offers a worksite wellness program that aims to increase the physical activity levels of employees. The 10-week program is easy to implement and is based on a nationwide program developed by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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