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References

The following references provide background information only and are not intended to be a bibliography of current physical activity research activities or issues.

  1. Sturgeon J, Meer J. The First 50 Years 1956-2006. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Revisits Its Roots and Charts Its Future. Available at: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
  2. Montoye HJ, Epstein FH. Tecumseh community health study: an investigation of health and disease in an entire community. J Sports Med Phys Fitness 5(3):127-31, 1965.
  3. Epstein FH. The Tecumseh study. Archives of Environmental Health 21(3):402-7, 1970.
  4. Hochstim JR. Health and Ways of Living. In: Community as an Epidemiologic Laboratory. As Casebook of Community Studies. I.I. Kessler, M.L. Levin (Eds). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, pp. 149-76.
  5. Shephard RJ. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health held in Toronto, Ontario, October 11-13, 1966 and sponsored by the Ontario Heart Foundation, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association. Can Med Assoc J. 96(12):695-6. March 25, 1967.
  6. Choi JW. Exercise and Participation in Sports Among Persons 20 Years of Age and Over: United States, 1975. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics Advance Data from Vital Health Stat 19:1-11, 1978.
  7. Taylor HL, Jacobs DR, Schucker B, Knudsen J, Leon AS, Debacker G. A Questionnaire for the Assessment of Leisure Time Physical Activities. J Chron Dis 1978; 31:741-55.
  8. Institute of Medicine. National Academy of Sciences. Healthy People. The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Background Papers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, DHEW (PHS) Publication No. 79-55071A, 1979. pp. 1-484.
  9. U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. Healthy People. The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, DHEW (PHS) Publication No. 79-55071, 1979, pp.1-102.
  10. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Promoting Health Preventing Disease. Objectives for the Nation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. GPO No.1984 455 321 20079, 1980.
  11. Powell K, Paffenbarger RS. Workshop on Epidemiologic and Public Health Aspects of Physical Activity and Exercise: a Summary. Public Health Reports 100(2):118-26, 1985.
  12. Bouchard C., Shephard RJ, Stephens T, Sutton JR, McPherson BD. Exercise, Fitness, and Health. A Consensus of Current Knowledge. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Books, ISBN: 0-87322-237-7, pp. 3-28, 1990.
  13. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service. Healthy People 2000. National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 91-50212, 1990.
  14. National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel. Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health. NIH Consensus Statement. 13(3):1-33. December 18-20, 1995.
  15. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, S/N: 017-023-00196-5, 1996.
  16. International Consensus Group for the Development of an International Physical Activity Questionnaire. International Physical Activity Questionnaire.
  17. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN: 0-16-050498-8 (Vol. 1). ISBN: 0-16-050499-6 (Vol. 2). November, 2000.
  18. Craig CI, Marshall AL, Sjostrom M, Bauman A, Booth ML, Ainsworth BE, et al. International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12 country reliability and validity. Medicine and science in sports and exercise 35:1381-95, 2003.
  19. World Health Organization. Move for Health Day and Global Physical Activity Questionnaire. Available at: http://www.who.int/en. Accessed: Feb 17, 2009.
  20. Shephard RJ, Lankenau B, Pratt M, Neiman A, Benaziza H, Bauman A. Physical Activity Policy Development: A Synopsis of the WHO/CDC Consultation, September 29-October 2, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia. Public Health Reports 119(May-June):346-51, 2004.
  21. World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. World Health Organization. 2004.
  22. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN: 0-16-072398-1, pp. 1-80, Jan 12, 2005.
  23. Kohl HW, Lee IM, Vuori IM, Wheeler FC, Bauman A, Sallis JF. Physical Activity and Public Health: The Emergence of a Subdiscipline--Report from the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health April 17-21, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Journal of Physical Activity and Health 3:344-64, 2006.
  24. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. 2008. Available at: http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/. Accessed: Feb 17, 2009.
  25. Stephens T, Craig CL. Fitness and Activity Measurement in the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey. In: Assessing Physical Fitness and Physical Activity in Population-Based Surveys. T.F. Drury (Ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN: 0-8406-0392-4, pp. 401-432, 1989.
  26. Schoenborn CA. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. United States, 1985. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 10(163):1-182, DHHS Publication No. 86-1591, 1986, pp. 35, 37.
  27. Piani AL, Schoenborn CA. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, United States 1990. Hyattsville, Maryland. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 10(185):1-88. ISBN: 0-8406-0474-2, 1993. pp. 42, 44.
  28. Risk Factor Prevalence Study Management Committee. Risk Factor Prevalence Study. Survey No 3. 1989. Canberra, Australia: National Heart Foundation of Australia and Australian Institute of Health, ISBN 0 909475 27 X, 1990.
  29. Berg MA, Peltoniemi J, Puska P. Health Behaviour Among Finnish Adult Population, Spring, 1991. Helsinki, Finland: National Public Health Institute; 1992. ISBN 951-47-5730-0.
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  31. Adams PF, Schoenborn CA. Health risk behaviors among our nation's youth: United States, 1992. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Stat 10(192). 1995. (Table 10)
  32. Caspersen C, Pollard RA. Validity of global self-reports of physical activity in epidemiology. CVD Epidemiology Newsletter 43(15). 1988.
  33. Weiss TW, Slater CH, Green LW, Kennedy VC, Albright DL, Wun CC. The Validity of Single-Item Self-Assessment Questions as Measures of Adult Physical Activity. J Clin Epidemiol 43(11):1123-9, 1990.
  34. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General; 2015.

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