National Physical
Activity Plan
Antronette (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH, FACPM
Professor, Dept. of Health Services
Co-Director, Center to Eliminate Health
Disparities (CEHD)
UCLA School of Public Health
Why and Why Now?
 Orchestrate efforts along the lines of other
national disease-focused health plans
(e.g., diabetes, arthritis), physical activity
plans in other countries (e.g., Australia,
Canada), and state physical activity plans
 Build on momentum from release of first
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
earlier this month
Other US National Health Plans:
 National Arthritis Action Plan: A
Public Health Strategy
 National Blueprint: Increasing
Physical Activity Among Adults Age
50 and Older
 A Public Health Action Plan to
Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
Other Physical Activity Plans
Around the World:
 Canada
 Finland
 Northern Ireland
 Pakistan
 Scotland
 UK
 Western Australia
State Physical Activity Plans
 Arizona
 Iowa
 Nebraska
 Colorado
 Maine
 New Mexico
 Georgia
 Maryland
 South Carolina
 Hawaii
 Montana
 South Dakota
How Is the Effort Supported?
 Prevention Research Center (focused on
physical activity), University of South
Carolina
 Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Coordinating Committee
Fields represented
 Public Health
 Education
 Transportation, Urban Design, and
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Community Planning
Mass Media
Healthcare
Business and Industry
Parks, Recreation, Fitness, and Sports
Volunteer and Non Profit Organizations
Organizational Partners
 AAHPERD
 AAP
 AARP
 ACS
 ACSM
 AHA
 CDC
Coordinating Committee
Russell Pate, USC, Chair
Jim Whitehead, ACSM, Co-Chair
Steven Blair, USC
David Buchner, UI/Urbana-Champaign
Carmen Cutter, SDSU/ALR
Colleen Doyle, ACS
Jacqueline Epping, CDC
Barry Franklin (Beaumont Hosp.), AHA
Matthew Grady (Children’s Hosp., Phila.),
AAP
Coordinating Committee
Kelly Griffin, AARP
William Haskell, Stanford
Amelia Lee (LSU), AAHPERD
Bess Marcus, Brown U.
Russell Pate, Univ. South Carolina
Michael Pratt, CDC
James Sallis (SDSU), ALR
James Whitehead, ACSM
Antronette (Toni) Yancey, UCLA
Activities To Date
1. Recruit of organizational partners across
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sectors
Identify model plans from disease-targeted,
international and state physical activity plans
Build website: www.physicalactivityplan.org
Plan national meeting now scheduled for June
30-July 9, 2009
Assemble evidence base through
commissioned white papers targeting key
sectors
National Plan Sectors
 Public Health - public health agencies at the federal, state
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and local levels
Author: Greg Heath, University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga
Education – education agencies at federal, state, and local
levels; schools at preschool to college levels
Author: Daryl Seidentop, Ohio State University
Voluntary, Not for Profit Organizations – volunteer
organizations committed to issues that impact or are
impacted by physical activity (health and non-health)
Author: Colleen Doyle, American Cancer Society
Transportation/Urban Design/Community Planning –
relevant agencies at federal, state and local levels
Author: TBN
National Plan Sectors
and White Paper Authors
 Mass Media – web; television; media campaigns
Author: Adrian Bauman, University of Sydney
 Healthcare – federal and state program; health insurance
industry; clinical practice
Author: Kevin Patrick, University of California at San Diego
 Business/Industry – worksite health; manufacturers of
products impacting physical activity
Author: Nico Pronk, HealthPartners Health Behavior
Group
 Parks/Recreation/Fitness/Sports – recreation and parks
agencies at federal, state, and local levels; private fitness
industry; professional and amateur sports organizations
Author: Andrew Mowen, Pennsylvania State University
White Papers:
Working to arrange publication in special issue of a refereed journal
 Primary sources: systematic reviews complemented
by individual studies
 Secondary sources: recommended or best practice
physical activity interventions from authoritative
organizations
 Comprehensive reviews: not included
 Recommend most promising intervention strategies,
based on criteria such as:
*strength of evidence *likely efficacy
*reach
*potential for wide dissemination
*potential for sustainability of intervention or effects
*cost or cost-effectiveness
*potential for reducing disparities
*ability to target inactive populations
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