Findings from workshops and survey feedback with policy makers investigating the feasibility of a comprehensive and standardised physical activity surveillance system in Australia.
Most governments want to create walkable communities, for a healthy population and planet, and laws can help deliver these. This brief animation introduces the concept.
Laws are an important tool for regulating the built environment. Little is known about whether the laws in Australia promote or hinder physical activity.
Toowoomba Healthy Towns is a citizen science initiative which aimed to give citizens a voice and support them to advocate for healthy, walkable and cycling communities in Toowoomba and Oakey, Queensland.
This comprehensive scoping review developed a typology of the objectives, themes and methods of research papers that purported to apply systems thinking to this issue.
In this end of project seminar, members of the Australian Systems Approaches to Physical Activity (ASAPa) team presented findings and insights on their project that researched implementing systems-based practice at the population level.
There is an urgent need to implement and evaluate systems focused interventions for physical activity. This project developed systems thinking frameworks and approaches that will be useful for physical activity promotion.
Effective national action requires a systems-based approach which engages multiple sectors and addresses systems-level determinants of physical inactivity.
The Australian Systems Approaches to Physical Activity (ASAPa) project team present the physical activity systems map developed with the National Physical Activity Network for Australia.