Jacquetta Fewster
Walking for Health Project Manager
24 September 2014
Douglas Macmillan: an angry
visionary
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Some of our achievement in 2008
In fact, nearly one in two of us will
get cancer.
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Being active reduces relative
risk of cancer by:
30-50% for colon cancer
20-40% for breast cancer
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Not everyone is living well
American College of Sports Medicine (2010)
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (2011)
A framework for physical activity behaviour
change
Stakeholder engagement
Quality assurance
Raise
awareness
Brief advice
Behaviour
Change
Intervention
Support and follow up
Get and stay active
Tools and Resources
Walking groups
Physical activity the
underrated wonderdrug
‘Keeping active has helped
me, and my family, through
a really difficult time. It’s
helped me return to a more
normal way of life and has
given me a real sense of
achievement’.
Ted Poulter, 66 Pseudomyxoma
peritonei