Objectives: To determine whether awareness of the moderate physical activity message and
prevalence of participation changed among Australian adults between 1997 and 1999, and …

Objective: To examine trends in leisure time physical activity and inactivity in Australians
aged 15 years or older from 1989 to 2011. Method: We used data from six Australian …

Objective: To examine recent trends in sufficient physical activity among New South Wales
adults aged 16 years and over. Methods: Data were obtained from New South Wales …

Background: This paper provides an historical review of physical activity policy development
in Australia for a period spanning a decade since the release of the US Surgeon General's …

Increasing levels of participation in physical activity is an important issue for all Australians,
from the sport and recreation sector's perspective as well as being an important and under …

Objective Regular monitoring of population levels of physical activity is an effective way to
assess change over time towards meeting public health recommendations. The objective of …

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a national campaign on awareness of the
campaign, change in knowledge of physical activity recommendations and self reported …

Regular physical activity has an important role in disease prevention and the promotion of
positive health. Population-wide campaigns to promote physical activity are a potentially …

Aims Physical inactivity is considered to be as detrimental to public health as hypertension
or tobacco use, but there is limited evidence on the impact of community-wide interventions …

Background There has been increasing focus on the importance of national policy to
address population levels of physical inactivity. Components of a comprehensive national …