Background Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given
the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development …

Physical activity (PA) provides numerous physiological and psychosocial benefits. However,
lifestyle changes, including reduced PA opportunities in multiple settings, have resulted in …

Background Physical activity among children and adolescents is associated with lower
adiposity, improved cardio‐metabolic health, and improved fitness. Worldwide, fewer than …

Importance Whether quality-or quantity-based physical education (PE) interventions are
associated with improvement of health-related physical fitness outcomes and fundamental …

Background The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Health Promoting Schools (HPS)
framework is an holistic, settings‐based approach to promoting health and educational …

Background Childhood obesity remains a global public health priority due to the enormous
burden it generates. Recent surveillance data suggests there has been a sharp increase in …

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.9 million deaths
worldwide are attributable to physical inactivity and at least 2.6 million deaths are a result of …

This text provides the most comprehensive treatment of the design and analytic issues
involved in group-randomized trials. GRTs are comparative studies conducted to evaluate …

Schools have played a central role in the provision of physical activity to American children
and youth for more than a century. Physical education (PE) has been an institution in …

In this review, we identify the health benefits associated with physical activity (PA); address
the physical activity and sedentary guidelines issued by public health scientists as well as …