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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 367-370Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2006.06.010
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physical activity; social ecological; models; intrapersonal factors; social factors
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People or places: what should be the target? was the provocative title of a keynote session at the fifth Australian National Physical Activity Conference held in Melbourne in 2005. This paper will argue that in fact there need not be major conflict between these views, and that couching recent debate about physical activity promotion as a polarised choice between these presents a false dichotomy. To illustrate this, the paper will consider several problems with singular approaches to understanding and promoting physical activity, and will then describe emerging empirical evidence on the nexus between people and places. To balance an increasing emphasis in the scientific literature on physical environmental determinants of physical activity, the role of intrapersonal and social factors will also be revisited. It is concluded that growing evidence supporting the multiple domains of influence on physical activity justifies calls for multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships and approaches to the promotion of active lifestyles. (c) 2006 Sports Medicine Australia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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