Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People

体育活动对年轻人当前和未来的健康都很重要。然而，似乎许多年轻人不够活跃，无法享受这些健康益处。我们还知道，孩子们长大后，尤其是在青少年时期，体育活动会减少。因此，确定保持和促进年轻人身体活动水平的方法对公共卫生很重要。身体活动行为是复杂的，不仅包括体育活动，还包括遛狗、骑自行车上学、在操场上玩耍和体育课等行为。年轻人的活跃程度受到许多因素的影响，例如他们对体育活动的偏好、附近人行道的供应、天气以及父母在多大程度上支持他们进行体育活动。这些因素如何共同促进身体活动，以及如何利用这些知识促进身体活动的增加，在很大程度上仍然未知。因此，体育活动行为流行病学小组旨在通过以下方式改善年轻人的长期健康：-制定和评估增加年轻人体育活动的干预措施-增加我们对在何处、何时以及如何对年轻人实施体育活动干预措施的理解

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