Conference--Understanding & Influencing Physical Act.

描述(由申请人提供)：我们正在申请部分资金 库珀研究所系列会议第四次会议，题为 “了解和影响体力活动的创新方法。” 这是一个及时的话题，因为行为领域的总体变化和 特别是体力活动已经认识到， 个体发生在情景、社会和环境的背景下 影响。拟议中的会议将汇集来自不同国家的专家 努力推进关于以下因素的现有对话： 调节身体活动行为。潜在的调解人包括 心理，情感，行为，人际，社会文化，生态， 交通、环境和政策因素，据信 影响身体活动行为。这次会议很重要，因为 缺乏运动是主要的公共卫生负担之一 目前正面对我们的国家。大量的科学证据表明 缺乏体力活动与发病率和死亡率增加有关， 据估计，每年25万人的死亡可归因于缺乏 定期的体力活动。会议的目标是：(1) 召集不同的专家小组，总结我们对各种因素的了解 影响身体活动行为的；(2)刺激分析现有的 来自体力活动干预、交通和城市的数据 计划；(3)讨论身体活动行为的测量和分析，以 改进用于统计建模的措施和方法 影响；以及(4)向所有领域的专业人员传播这些研究结果 有可能影响身体活动行为。科学计划 委员会不知道任何其他国际、国家、地区或地方 这是一次专门关注这些目标的会议。另外，我们也知道 这些话题对我们所在的其他团体非常感兴趣 募集资金，包括疾病控制和预防中心 和罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会。根据我们之前的记录 成功组织和执行会议，产生深远影响 我们相信，我们能够在这一成功的基础上发展， 组织并发布将对宣传产生影响的会议成果 增加久坐活动患病率的体力活动计划 人口。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting partial funding for the fourth conference in The Cooper Institute Conference Series entitled, "Innovative Approaches to Understanding and Influencing Physical Activity." This is a timely topic because the field of behavior change in general and physical activity in particular has come to recognize that the behavior of individuals occurs within a context of situational, social, and environmental influences. The proposed conference will bring together experts from diverse fields in an effort to further existing dialogue concerning the factors that mediate physical activity behavior. Potential mediators include the psychological, affective, behavioral, interpersonal, sociocultural, ecological, transportation, environmental, and policy factors that are believed to influence physical activity behavior. The conference is important because physical inactivity represents one of the leading public health burdens currently facing our nation. Abundant scientific evidence demonstrates that physical inactivity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, and it is estimated that 250,000 deaths per year are attributable to a lack of regular physical activity. The objectives of the conference are to: (1) assemble a diverse group of experts to summarize what we know about factors that influence physical activity behavior; (2) stimulate analyses of existing data from physical activity interventions and transportation and urban planning; (3) discuss measurement and analysis of physical activity behavior to improve the measures and methodologies employed to statistically model the effects; and (4) disseminate these findings to professionals in all fields with potential to influence physical activity behavior. The scientific program committee is unaware of any other international, national, regional, or local meeting that has focused exclusively on these objectives. Also, we do know that these topics are of great interest to other groups from which we are also soliciting funding, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Based on our previous record of successful organization and execution of conferences resulting in far-reaching publications, we are confident that we can build on this success to develop, organize, and publish conference findings that will be influential in promoting physical activity programs to increase the prevalence of activity in sedentary populations.