Associations between active travel to work and overweight, hypertension, and diabetes in India: a cross-sectional study

C Millett, S Agrawal, R Sullivan, M Vaz, A Kurpad… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Increasing active travel (walking, bicycling, and public transport) is promoted as
a key strategy to increase physical activity and reduce the growing burden of …

The efficacy of a telemedicine-based weight loss program with video conference health coaching support

MK Alencar, K Johnson, R Mullur… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Clinically significant weight loss is defined as a≥ 5% of initial body weight loss
within a 6-month period. The purpose of this study was to assess body weight change from a …

Societal technological megatrends: A bibliometric analysis from 1982 to 2021

FV Jeflea, D Danciulescu, CS Sitnikov, D Filipeanu… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article presents a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications investigating
technological megatrends at the societal level, through the parallel analysis of 549 …

[HTML][HTML] Forty years in the making: A systematic review of the megatrends literature

CK Naughtin, E Schleiger, A Bratanova, A Terhorst… - Futures, 2024 - Elsevier
Four decades ago, the concept of megatrends was introduced by John Naisbitt (1929-2021).
The popular tool has since been adopted by researchers, consultants, private enterprises …

A systematic review of economic analyses of active transport interventions that include physical activity benefits

V Brown, BZ Diomedi, M Moodie, JL Veerman, R Carter - Transport Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Physical inactivity is one of the leading causes for the growing prevalence of non-
communicable diseases worldwide and there is a need for more evidence on the …

Crowdsourced data for physical activity-built environment research: applying strava data in Chengdu, China

L Yang, B Yu, P Liang, X Tang, J Li - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The lack of physical activity has become a rigorous challenge for many countries, and the
relationship between physical activity and the built environment has become a hot research …

Determining intra-urban spatial accessibility disparities in multimodal public transport networks

J Chen, J Ni, C Xi, S Li, J Wang - Journal of transport geography, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban rail systems have been added to public transport systems, thereby changing
distribution disparities in urban spatial accessibility. These disparities reflect both the ability …

Integrating smartphone technology, social support and the outdoor physical environment to improve fitness among adults at risk of, or diagnosed with, type 2 diabetes …

RC Plotnikoff, M Wilczynska, KE Cohen, JJ Smith… - Preventive …, 2017 - Elsevier
The risk and prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has dramatically increased over the past
decade. The aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a physical activity …

The Lancet physical activity Observatory: promoting physical activity worldwide

PC Hallal, RC Martins, A Ramírez - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
The LancetPhysical Activity Observatory: promoting physical activity worldwide 2 years ago,
at the time of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, The Lancet launched a …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of a scaled up physical activity intervention in Brazil: a natural experiment

EJ Simões, PC Hallal, FV Siqueira, C Schmaltz… - Preventive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Physical inactivity causes 5.3 million deaths annually worldwide. We evaluated the impact
on population leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) of scaling up an intervention in Brazil …