scholarly journals Missed opportunities in the evaluation of public health interventions: a case study of physical activity programmes

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hanson ◽  
Andy Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Missed Opportunities

scholarly journals Correlates of Omani adults’ physical inactivity and sitting time

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth M Mabry ◽  
Elisabeth AH Winkler ◽  
Marina M Reeves ◽  
Elizabeth G Eakin ◽  
Neville Owen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Sitting Time ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Education Work

AbstractObjectiveTo inform public health approaches for chronic disease prevention, the present study identified sociodemographic, anthropometric and behavioural correlates of work, transport and leisure physical inactivity and sitting time among adults in Oman.DesignCross-sectional study using the WHO STEPwise study methodology.SettingSur City, Oman.SubjectsMen and women aged 20 years and older (n 1335) in the Sur City Healthy Lifestyle Study who had complete data for demographic variables (gender, age, education, work status and marital status), BMI and behavioural risk factors – smoking and dietary habits plus physical inactivity and sitting time (the outcome variables).ResultsThe highest level of physical inactivity was in the leisure domain (55·4 %); median sitting time was about 2 h/d. Gender-stratified logistic regression models found that the statistically significant (P < 0·05) correlates of inactivity (in one or more domains) were age, work status and fruit and vegetable intake in women, and age, education, work status, marital status and BMI in men. Gender-stratified linear regression models found that the statistically significant correlates of sitting time were age, work status and BMI in women and education in men.ConclusionsFindings suggest that public health interventions need to be gender responsive and focus on domain-specific physical inactivity. In the Omani context, this might include gender-segregated exercise facilities to promote leisure physical activity among women and walking-friendly environmental initiatives to promote transport physical activity among men. Further evidence on barriers to physical activity and factors that influence prolonged sitting is required to develop relevant public health interventions.

Economic evaluations of public health interventions for physical activity and healthy diet: A systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 106100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihretab Gebreslassie ◽  
Filipa Sampaio ◽  
Camilla Nystrand ◽  
Richard Ssegonja ◽  
Inna Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Public Health Interventions

MEDICAL AUXILIARIES AND THE NEGOTIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN COLONIAL NORTH-WESTERN TANZANIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Webel
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public ◽  
North Western ◽  
Western Tanzania

AbstractThis article investigates the development and employment of African medical auxiliaries during the German campaign against sleeping sickness in colonial north-western Tanzania. A case study from the kingdom of Kiziba demonstrates how widespread illness and colonial public health interventions intersected with broader political and social change in the early twentieth century. Ziba auxiliaries known as gland-feelers operated within overlapping social and occupational contexts as colonial intermediaries, royal emissaries, and familiar local men. The changing fortunes of the campaign and its auxiliaries illustrate how new public health interventions became a means for the kingdom's population to engage with or avoid both royal and colonial power.

scholarly journals Use of wearable sensors to assess compliance of asthmatic children in response to lockdown measures for the COVID-19 epidemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiotis Kouis ◽  
Antonis Michanikou ◽  
Pinelopi Anagnostopoulou ◽  
Emmanouil Galanakis ◽  
Eleni Michaelidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
At Home

AbstractBetween March and April 2020, Cyprus and Greece health authorities enforced three escalated levels of public health interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We quantified compliance of 108 asthmatic schoolchildren (53 from Cyprus, 55 from Greece, mean age 9.7 years) from both countries to intervention levels, using wearable sensors to continuously track personal location and physical activity. Changes in ‘fraction time spent at home’ and ‘total steps/day’ were assessed with a mixed-effects model adjusting for confounders. We observed significant mean increases in ‘fraction time spent at home’ in Cyprus and Greece, during each intervention level by 41.4% and 14.3% (level 1), 48.7% and 23.1% (level 2) and 45.2% and 32.0% (level 3), respectively. Physical activity in Cyprus and Greece demonstrated significant mean decreases by − 2,531 and − 1,191 (level 1), − 3,638 and − 2,337 (level 2) and − 3,644 and − 1,961 (level 3) total steps/day, respectively. Significant independent effects of weekends and age were found on ‘fraction time spent at home’. Similarly, weekends, age, humidity and gender had an independent effect on physical activity. We suggest that wearable technology provides objective, continuous, real-time location and activity data making possible to inform in a timely manner public health officials on compliance to various tiers of public health interventions during a pandemic.

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