BRICS nations and the opportunities for community physical activity interventions

• Rapid urbanization and its environmental impact have led to challenges to health and well-being of residents in BRICS nations. • Physical activity should be a priority public health target for primary and secondary prevention because of the high prevalence of chronic diseases and cardiometabolic r...

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Autor principal: Garber, Carol Ewing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shanghai University of Sport 2019
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Special Topic on Brics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2019.07.010
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description • Rapid urbanization and its environmental impact have led to challenges to health and well-being of residents in BRICS nations. • Physical activity should be a priority public health target for primary and secondary prevention because of the high prevalence of chronic diseases and cardiometabolic risk factors in BRICS nations. • BRICS nations can harness scientific evidence prospectively to promote environmental and policy supports for physical activity. • Physical activity interventions engaging the members of the community and that are culturally relevant are more likely to be effective.
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spelling pubmed-68349792019-11-12 BRICS nations and the opportunities for community physical activity interventions Garber, Carol Ewing J Sport Health Sci Special Topic on Brics • Rapid urbanization and its environmental impact have led to challenges to health and well-being of residents in BRICS nations. • Physical activity should be a priority public health target for primary and secondary prevention because of the high prevalence of chronic diseases and cardiometabolic risk factors in BRICS nations. • BRICS nations can harness scientific evidence prospectively to promote environmental and policy supports for physical activity. • Physical activity interventions engaging the members of the community and that are culturally relevant are more likely to be effective. Shanghai University of Sport 2019-11 2019-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6834979/ /pubmed/31720058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2019.07.010 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Shanghai University of Sport. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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