Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People

体育锻炼对年轻人目前和未来的健康很重要。然而，许多年轻人似乎不够活跃，无法享受这些健康益处。我们还知道，当孩子们长大后，他们的体力活动会减少，特别是在青少年时期。因此，找出保持和促进年轻人体力活动水平的方法对公众健康很重要。身体活动行为是复杂的，不仅包括体育活动，还包括遛狗、骑车上学、在操场上玩耍和体育课等行为。青少年的活动程度受很多因素影响，例如他们对体育活动的喜好、附近的行人路设施、天气，以及他们的父母对他们进行体育活动的支持程度。这些因素如何共同促进体力活动，以及如何利用这一知识来促进体力活动的增加，在很大程度上仍是未知的。因此，体力活动小组的行为流行病学旨在通过以下方式改善年轻人的长期健康：-开发和评估干预措施以增加年轻人的体力活动-增加我们对在哪里、何时以及如何在年轻人中应用体力活动干预的理解

Physical activity is important for young people’s current and future health. However, it appears that many young people are not active enough to enjoy these health benefits. We also know that children do less physical activity when they become older, particularly during teenage years. Identifying ways to maintain and promote young people’s levels of physical activity is therefore important for public health. Physical activity behaviour is complex, not just consisting of sports activities but including behaviours such as walking the dog, cycling to school, playing in the playground and physical education lessons. How active young people are is influenced by many factors, such as their preference for physical activity, the provision of footpaths in the neighbourhood, weather and how much their parents support them in being physically active. How these factors work together in promoting physical activity and how to use this knowledge to promote increases in physical activity is still largely unknown. The Behavioural Epidemiology of Physical Activity Group therefore aims to improve the long-term health of young people by: - developing and evaluating interventions to increase physical activity in young people - increasing our understanding of where, when and how physical activity interventions in young people may be applied