KINES 421 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Monism, Health Promotion, Public Health
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Questions on the exam will be developed from the following information: Improve movement skills and fitness: maintain a healthy body weight, build healthy hearts, feel happy, have fun while developing self-confidence. Improve learning and attention, do better in school: adults (18-64, reduce premature death, reduce heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain types of cancer, reduce high blood pressure. Incidence of regular activity participation is lower than originally believed maybe <5% of adult population: only 1/13 pa and fitness objectives proposed by federal government"s healthy people 2000 was actually met. W2: measuring exercise & sedentary behaviors: understand why measurement is important and why it is so difficult to measure physical activity/sedentary behavior, measurement is important for understanding the true prevalence of pa and ex. Identify the goals of pa measurement and bauman et al. (2006) conceptual model of pa measures for health promotion: goals, understand behaviors, motivational determinants and correlates, accurate and reliable.
