The Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018 - 2030
2018
This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines the WHO’s new global plan to promote physical activity and provides a framework of policy actions to encourage physical activity at all levels. It describes the importance of physical activity in helping to prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancers; prevent risk factors like hypertension, overweight, and obesity; and improve mental health and overall quality of life and well-being. The report also outlines the cost of inactivity to health systems and societies, provides global data on physical activity, and describes the role of physical activity in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The WHO’s Global Action Plan on Physical Activity seeks to reduce the global prevalence of physical inactivity in adolescents and adults by 15 percent by the year 2030, through the application of four strategic objectives: create active societies, create active environments, create active people, and create active systems. It outlines 20 policy actions to meet those objectives, including both “upstream” efforts—aimed at improving the social, cultural, economic and environmental factors that support physical activity—and “downstream”, individually focused educational and informational approaches.
The Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018 - 2030
Source:
Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018–2030: More Active People for a Healthier World. World Health Organization 2018. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/272722.