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Results from Australia's 2018 report card on physical activity for children and youth

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posted on 2025-05-09, 15:43 authored by Natasha Schranz, Vanessa Glennon, Grant R. Tomkinson, Stewart Vella, Jenny Ziviani, Tim Olds, John Evans, Sjaan Gomersall, Louise Hardy, Kylie D. Hesketh, David LubansDavid Lubans, Nichola D. Ridgers, Leon Straker, Michalis Stylianou
A decades worth of high quality surveillance sources have consistently shown that Australian kids are not meeting the physical activity (PA) guidelines of at least 60 min moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) each day of the week.1 This is concerning because physical inactivity is associated with a myriad of unfavourable health outcomes. This paper will summarise the results from the 2018 Active Healthy Kids Australia (AHKA) PA Report Card, with the assigned grades based upon representative national and state/territory-based data sources (see Figure 1 for 2018 Report Card cover).

History

Journal title

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Volume

15

Issue

S2

Pagination

S315-S317

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Education

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