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LANCET
Volume 380, Issue 9838, Pages 282-293Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60736-3
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- Coca Cola Company
- International Union for Health Promotion and Education
- Centre for Diet and Activity Research
- UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence
- British Heart Foundation
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute for Health Research
- Wellcome Trust
- UK Clinical Research Collaboration
- Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Basic and Applied Complexity
- CeiBA (Bogota, Colombia) [519 2010]
- CDC Prevention Research Center's programme [U48/DP001903]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G007462/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_U106188470, MC_U106179474] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/G007462/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MC_U106179474, MC_U106188470] Funding Source: UKRI
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Physical inactivity accounts for more than 3 million deaths per year, most from non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. We used reviews of physical activity interventions and a simulation model to examine how megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation directly and indirectly affect levels of physical activity across countries of low, middle, and high income. The model suggested that the direct and potentiating effects of information and communication technology, especially mobile phones, are nearly equal in magnitude to the mean effects of planned physical activity interventions. The greatest potential to increase population physical activity might thus be in creation of synergistic policies in sectors outside health including communication and transportation. However, there remains a glaring mismatch between where studies on physical activity interventions are undertaken and where the potential lies in low-income and middle-income countries for population-level effects that will truly affect global health.
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