Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: . Even more worri-some is knowing that only 20% of 13-15 year-old adolescents practice 1 hour a day of moderate to intense physical activities. More than 5 mil-lion deaths a year in the world are due to physi-cal inactivity, a figure similar to smoking-related deaths. A set of effective interventions to increase the practice of physical activity among the pop-ulation is available, but most of these interven-tions were never expanded on a large scale. The physical inactivity pandemic is considered one of the major global health threats in contemporary societies
Source: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Author: Pedro C. Hallal
Institution: Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Language: English
Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2135039809