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Physical Activity

Resources

This page contains a list of resources and fact sheets related to physical activity

Recommendations and Guidelines
Additional Resources
Historical Publications

Recommendations and Guidelines

Choose Health: Be Active: A physical activity guide for older Australians
To help encourage older Australians to be physically active, the Department of Health and Ageing and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs have jointly produced a resource called Choose Health: Be Active.
Publication number : NUT 62

Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for 5-12 year olds
Health Ministers have recently endorsed and announced consumer resources developed by the Australian Government to promote Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for Children and Young People.
Publication number : PHY 06

Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for 12-18 year olds
Health Ministers have recently endorsed and announced consumer resources developed by the Australian Government to promote Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for Children and Young People.
Publication number : PHY 07

National Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults - Brochure
An active way to better health.
Publication number : PHY 09

Healthy Spaces and Places
Healthy Spaces and Places is a web-based national guide for planning, designing and creating sustainable communities that encourage healthy living. It has been developed by the Planning Institute of Australia, the National Heart Foundation, and the Australian Local Government Association with funding from the Department of Health and Ageing. An overview document is available for order.
Publication number : HL 0009

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Additional Resources

• Discussion paper for the development of recommendations for children’s and youths’ participation in health enhancing physical activity
• Recommendations on physical activity for health for older Australians
• Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians: Scientific Background Report
• Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians: Summary and Appendices
• Report from the University of Queensland - Measuring Physical Activity in Urban Indigenous Australians (PDF 852 KB)
• Active Australia: Getting Started Book
• Developing an Active Australia: A framework for action for physical activity and health
• Physical Activity Patterns of Australian Adults
• Costs of Illness Attributable to Physical Inactivity in Australia: A preliminary study
• US Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health
• Exercise in Daily Life: Supportive Environments - Report of a National Heart Foundation Research Project

Historical Publications

• Developing an Active Australia: A Work Plan for 2000 to 2003 (revised April 2002) (SIGPAH Workplan) (PDF 52 KB)

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