Physical activity behaviours in adolescence: current evidence and opportunities for intervention

EMF van Sluijs, U Ekelund, I Crochemore-Silva… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Young people aged 10–24 years constitute 24% of the world's population; investing in their
health could yield a triple benefit—eg, today, into adulthood, and for the next generation …

City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities

M Lowe, D Adlakha, JF Sallis, D Salvo… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
City planning policies influence urban lifestyles, health, and sustainability. We assessed
policy frameworks for city planning for 25 cities across 19 lower-middle-income countries …

[HTML][HTML] Global matrix 4.0 physical activity report card grades for children and adolescents: results and analyses from 57 countries

S Aubert, JD Barnes, I Demchenko… - … of Physical Activity …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
Background: The Global Matrix 4.0 on physical activity (PA) for children and adolescents
was developed to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the global variation in …

Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities

G Boeing, C Higgs, S Liu, B Giles-Corti… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving
local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator …

Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities: findings from the IPEN Adult study

E Cerin, JF Sallis, D Salvo, E Hinckson… - The Lancet Global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
An essential characteristic of a healthy and sustainable city is a physically active population.
Effective policies for healthy and sustainable cities require evidence-informed quantitative …

What next? Expanding our view of city planning and global health, and implementing and monitoring evidence-informed policy

B Giles-Corti, AV Moudon, M Lowe, E Cerin… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
This Series on urban design, transport, and health aimed to facilitate development of a
global system of health-related policy and spatial indicators to assess achievements and …

Gender differences in active travel in major cities across the world

R Goel, O Oyebode, L Foley, L Tatah, C Millett… - Transportation, 2022 - Springer
There is lack of literature on international comparison of gender differences in the use of
active travel modes. We used population-representative travel surveys for 19 major cities …

When moving is the only option: the role of necessity versus choice for understanding and promoting physical activity in low-and middle-income countries

D Salvo, A Jáuregui, D Adlakha… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Given its origins in high-income countries, the field of physical activity and public health
research and promotion has broadly followed a choice-based model. However, a substantial …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through improving eye health: a scoping review

JH Zhang, J Ramke, C Jan, C Bascaran… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
UN member states have committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) by 2030. This Review examines the published evidence on how improving eye …

[PDF][PDF] Recurring patterns of SDG interlinkages and how they can advance the 2030 Agenda

T Bennich, Å Persson, R Beaussart, C Allen… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a vision for a more sustainable world, to be
realized by 2030. Progress to date is insufficient and implementation challenges are many …