caa a22 4500 397547714 CHVBK 20180308164742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapro/11.3.213 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapro/11.3.213 OWEN NEVILLE Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Strategic initiatives to promote participation in physical activity [Elektronische Daten] [NEVILLE OWEN] Future reductions in the overall burden of ill-health and premature death from cardiovascular disease are likely to follow from reductions in the proportions of the population who are physically inactive. More benefit is likely to be gained from activating the sedentary than from persuading those who are already active to become more active. Population studies of exercise behaviour from New Zealand, North America and Australia have found that 25-30% of adults are sedentary in their leisure time. Australia's National Health Goals and Targets are described as an example of recent initiatives in industrialised countries to increase physical activity levels on a population-wide basis. Evaluations of recent nationwide campaigns in Australia suggest the need for a realistic awareness of what can and cannot be achieved by mass-media information and persuasion to encourage sedentary people to be more active. Primary-health-care practitioners (particularly general practitioners and those educated in the exercise and sport sciences) have a key role to play in advising and encouraging sedentary people to be more active, particularly by focusing on each of the different stages of change in physical activity (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance). Health-care practitioners should also be contributing to informed public debate not only by disseminating information on the benefits of a physically active lifestyle, but also by advocating for appropriate environmental and social changes which would encourage inactive people to be more active. © Oxford University Press Perspectives nationallicence campaign nationallicence physical activity nationallicence population nationallicence stage of change nationallicence Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 213-218 0957-4824 11:3<213 1996 11 heapro https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.213 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.213 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- OWEN NEVILLE Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 213-218 0957-4824 11:3<213 1996 11 heapro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford