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The implications of megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation for changes in global physical activity [1]

Physical inactivity accounts for more than 3 million deaths per year, most from non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. We used reviews of physical activity interventions and a simulation model to examine how megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation directly and indirectly affect levels of physical activity across countries of low, middle, and high income.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2012
Michael Pratt [2], Olga L Sarmiento [3], Felipe Montes & et al [4]
Lancet [5]
380
9838
282 - 293
Tags:
Lifestyles [6], Health Effects [7], Non Communicable Diseases [8], Transport [9], Telecommunication [10], Information [11], Public Transport [12], Pedestrians [13], Walking [14], Cycles [15], Internet [16], Women [17], Obesity [18], Cars [19], London [20], Delhi [21], Vehicular Pollution [22], Colombia [23], United Kingdom (UK) [24], India [25], Global [26], Carbon Dioxide [27]

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