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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Physical Activity

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: National Institutes of Health

Last Reviewed: October 2020

Workgroups: Physical Activity Workgroup, Cancer Workgroup

This National Institutes of Health database of physical activity programs helps program planners find evidence-based programs for different settings, population groups, and community types. Examples include:

  • Aerobic Exercise Versus Spinal Flexibility + Aerobic Exercise for Sedentary & Functionally Limited Adults, which teaches older adults how to engage in more aerobic activity and how to practice various postures and positions and incorporate them into their daily life
  • ALIVE!, a personalized, computer-based intervention consisting of a health risk assessment with immediate feedback, health behavior modules, and weekly tailored emails
  • Bienestar, a culturally tailored, school-based diabetes prevention intervention with health and physical education classes, an after-school health club, family activities, and food service
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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Reduce the overall cancer death rate — C‑01
Improving
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic physical activity for substantial health benefits — PA‑02
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic physical activity for extensive health benefits — PA‑03
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic physical activity — PA‑06
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

National Cancer Institute. (n.d.). Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP), Physical Activity Evidence-Based Programs Listing. Retrieved from https://ebccp.cancercontrol.cancer.gov/topicPrograms.do?topicId=102268&choice=default