Active commuting to school - An overlooked source of childrens' physical activity?
Active commuting to school - An overlooked source of childrens' physical activity?
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DOI：
10.2165/00007256-200131050-00001
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
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9.8
通讯作者：
Popkin, BM
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Tudor-Locke, C;Ainsworth, BE;Popkin, BM
评估和促进儿童健康的体育活动十分重要：（一）防治蔓延至儿童时期的国际肥胖流行病;（二）养成早期体育活动的生活方式习惯，这种习惯可持续到青春期和成年期。评估和促进工作的主要重点是校内体育课，其次是校外有组织的锻炼、运动和游戏。持续适度活动的一个潜在来源，即通过步行或骑自行车积极通勤上学，在身体活动调查中基本上被忽视了。从全国交通调查中可以收集到儿童步行到目的地的数量急剧下降的证据。与此同时，据报告使用机动车辆的情况急剧增加，包括为儿童开车。很少有证据支持或反驳积极通勤上学是儿童身体活动的一个重要来源;然而，这主要是因为在踩踏事件中，人们忽视了评估更剧烈活动的时间，必须在父母对子女人身和行人安全的真实的关切和感知关切的背景下考虑促进积极通勤上学。当然，我们目前还没有完全了解与交通方式决定有关的所有因素，无论是儿童、家长、社区还是学校。如果能够实施成功和可持续的干预措施，就能够作出重要的交通运输政策决定，就必须有这种信息。社区和学校的设计可以修改。然而，实践很少等待研究，国际上有许多创新的规划、政策和环境设计的例子，可以作为有进取心的研究人员的自然实验，他们愿意推动我们对积极通勤和儿童体育活动的理解。因为我们知道的太少，所以还有很多东西要学。
The assessment and promotion of childrens' healthful physical activity is important: (i) to combat the international obesity epidemic that extends to childhood: and (ii) to establish an early habit of lifestyle physical activity that can be sustained into adolescence and adulthood. The primary focus of both assessment and promotion efforts has been on in-school physical education classes and, to a lesser extent, out-of-school structured exercise, sport and play. A potential source of continuous moderate activity, active commuting to school by means of walking or by bicycle, has been largely ignored in surveys of physical activity. Suggestive evidence of steep declines in the amount of childrens' destination walking can be gleaned from national transportation surveys. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in the reported use of motorised vehicles, including the use for chauffeuring children. There is very little evidence to support or refute active commuting to school as an important source of childrens physical activity; however, this is largely because it has been overlooked in the stampede to assess time in more vigorous activities.The promotion of active commuting to school must be considered in the context of parents' real and perceived concerns for their children's personal and pedestrian safety. We certainly do not have a full understanding at this time of all the factors related to decisions about transportation mode, whether by child, parent, community, or school. Such information is necessary if successful and sustainable interventions can be implemented, important transport policy decisions can be made. and community and school designs can be modified. Practice rarely waits for research, however, and there are numerous examples of innovative programming, policies and environmental designs occurring internationally that can serve as natural experiments for enterprising researchers willing to push the envelope of our understanding of active commuting and childrens' physical activity. Since we know so little, there is much to learn.