Safety

Personal, family, social, and environmental correlates of active commuting to school

Active commuting to school may be an important opportunity for children to accumulate adequate physical activity for improved cardiovascular risk factors, enhanced bone health, and psychosocial well-being.
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Active commuting to school among NSW primary school children: implications for public health

Regular active commuting by walking/cycling can help maintain an active lifestyle.
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Walking the talk (incorporating physical activity into conferences and meetings)

Incorporating physical activity into conferences and meetings
Walking the talk - Document - Adobe PDF - Acrobat Reader
A Rocky Mountain Conference on Weight Realities (2005) incorporated physical activities throughout the meeting to promote active living and to demonstrate how to build enjoyable body movement into daily lives of busy people.
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Chronic disease notes and reports (physical activity and health)

Special focus on physical activity and health This contains the Surgeon General's report on physical activity and health.
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Walk to school (quick start resource)

Quick start resource A downloadable PDF which provides key references, tools, and components for planning, implementing, evaluating and promoting a walk to school program.
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Relationship of walking to mortality among US adults with diabetes

Relationship of walking to mortality among US adults with diabetes
Go to CDC Fact Sheet - Document - Adobe PDF - Acrobat Reader
This is a fact sheet about mortality among people in the United States of America with diabetes and the relationship this has with walking.
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Health promoting physical activity of adults with mental retardation

This is a literature review which describes the physical activity behaviour of adults with mental retardation.
Author(s):
Heidi Stanish,Viviene Temple,Georgia Frey
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Living Streets Aotearoa is the New Zealand organisation for people on foot, promoting walking-friendly communities. We are a nationwide organisation with local branches and affiliates throughout New Zealand.

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