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Towards better evidence-informed global action: lessons learnt from the Lancet series and recent developments in physical activity and public health

Ding, D., Ramirez Varela, A., Bauman, A.E., Ekelund, U., Lee, I., Heath, G.W., ... Pratt, M. (2019). Towards better evidence-informed global action: lessons learnt from the Lancet series and recent developments in physical activity and public health. British Journal of Sports Medicine 54 (pp. 1-9)

In the past few decades, the field of physical activity has grown and evolved in scope, depth, visibility and impact around the world. Global progress has been observed in research and practice in physical activity regarding surveillance, health outcomes, correlates/determinants, interventions, translation and policy. The 2012 and 2016 Lancet series on physical activity provide some of the most comprehensive global analysis on various topics within physical activity.

Based on the Lancet series and other key developments in the field, literature searches, and expert group meetings and consultation, we provide a global summary on the progress of, gaps in and future directions for physical activity research in the following areas:

  1. surveillance and trends,
  2. correlates and determinants,
  3. health outcomes and
  4. interventions, programmes and policies.

Besides lessons learnt within each specific area, several recommendations are shared across areas of research, including improvement in measurement, applying a global perspective with a growing emphasis on low-income and middle-income countries, improving inclusiveness and equity in research, making translation an integral part of research for real-world impact, taking an ‘upstream’ public health approach, and working across disciplines and sectors to co-design research and co-create solutions.

We have summarised lessons learnt and recommendations for future research as ‘roadmaps’ in progress to encourage moving the field of physical activity towards achieving population-level impact globally.

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Ding (Melody) Ding
Andrea Ramirez Varela
Adrian Bauman
Ulf Ekelund
I-Min Lee
Gregory Heath
Peter Katzmarzyk
Rodrigo Reis
Michael Pratt

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