To implement effective non-communicable disease prevention programmes, policy makers
need data for physical activity levels and trends. In this report, we describe physical activity …

Active travel to school has declined during the last 50 years in North America. During the last
decade, the children's active school transportation (AST) literature has grown. This …

The Active Healthy Kids Canada (AHKC) Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and
Youth has been effective in powering the movement to get kids moving by influencing …

Sedentary behaviour (eg TV viewing, seated video game playing, prolonged sitting) has
recently emerged as a distinct risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases in children and youth …

Objectives We aimed to systematically review parental barriers towards children and
adolescents' active transport to school (ATS) in the scientific literature and to provide a …

In this paper, we seek to highlight the importance of understanding the social impacts and
consequences, as well as the distributional effects, of transport decision-making. Based on …

Background Active travel to school (ATS) has been identified as an important source of
physical activity for youth. However, the relationship between ATS and health-related fitness …

BACKGROUND: The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity has set a goal of
increasing walking and biking to school by 50% within 5 years. Meeting the goal requires a …

Active commuting to school has been recognized as a potential avenue to increase physical
activity in children and adolescents. However, active commuting to school has declined over …

The study reports the degree of children's independent mobility (CIM) in Finland for over two
decades, from the beginning of the 1990s up to 2011. The first part of the research examined …