KNES 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: World Health Organization, Chronic Respiratory Disease, Heart Rate Monitor

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNES 350
• Professor: John Smith

Document Summary

Overweight/obesity and physical inactivity are each responsible for approximately 1 in. The lack of pa is a problem in virtually all industrial nations, not only north america. The birth of the industrial revolution appears to have coincided with the death of widespread involvement in pa. Todays occupations rely more on mental stress and reducing occupational physical activity. Physical activity participation patterns sampling across the globe. Epidemiology: a field of study devoted to the 5 w"s who exercises; where, when, and why the do so; and what they do. Addresses physical activity patterns across certain groups of individuals, why certain individuals are active while some are not, the links among physical activity and morbidity/mortality. Countries that have collected and made accessible data from large scale epidemiology studies: us, canada, australia, england. Healthy people 2020 (u. s. department of health and human services, n. d. ) Health survey for england 2008 (health and social care information centre, 2009)