Physical
Activity
Activity
Movement of the body caused by skeletal muscle contractions.
What is physical activity?
A modification to laws, regulations, formal and informal rules, and standards of practice.
What are policy changes?
The systematic, ongoing assessment of the health of a community, based on the collection, interpretation, and use of health data and information.
What is surveillance?
A concentrated effort to promote physical activity using a variety of methods delivered in multiple settings.
What are community-wide campaign?
Relative amounts of muscle, fat, bone, and other anatomical components that contribute to a person's total body weight.
What is body composition?
Activities that include all students and keep most students moving purposefully most of the class time.
What is school-based physical education?
Recommended amount of moderate-intensity activity for older adults each week.
What is 150 minutes?
A planned, organized, and integrated set of activities with a clearly defined purpose that uses multiple strategies and channels.
What is a campaign?
It is about 4 times higher in women than in men.
What is essential fat?
buddy system
walking group
What are two community-based social support strategies for increasing physical activity?
Children and adolescents should perform __ minutes or more of physical activity daily.
What is 60?
A set of procedures used by planners and evaluators to try out various processes during program development on a small group of subjects before implementing.
What is a pilot test?
Physical activity that is planned or structured.
What is exercise?
lack of time, energy, will power, social influences, fear of injury
What are five common barriers to being physically active?
Hard or very hard physical activity requiring sustained, rhythmic movements.
What is vigorous-intensity physical activity?
A group of individuals or an organization, community, subpopulation, or society that is the focus of a specific health promotion effort.
What is target audience?
Ability of muscle groups to exert external force through repetitive motion or sustained exertion.
What is muscular endurance.
change or maintain the exercise behavior changes of individuals. understanding the influence of individual behavior changes in Physical activity which allows population level understanding
What is the goal of behavioral and social approaches to increase physical activity?
A level of effort in which a person should experience some increase in breathing or heart rate.
What is moderate-intensity physical activity?
A sign placed by an elevator encouraging people to use nearby stairs for heath benefits.
What is a point-of-decision prompt?