Five Community-wide Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion: A Cluster Analysis of These Activities in Local Health Jurisdictions in 6 States

Conclusion: Our findings suggest the importance of standardized public health services data for generating evidence regarding health-related outcomes. The intervention categories we identified appear to reflect broad, local community-wide prevention approaches and demonstrated that population-level PA interventions can be testable and may have particularly beneficial relationships to community health. Widespread adoption of such standardized data depicting local public health prevention activity could support monitoring practice change, performance improvement, comparisons across communities that could reduce unnecessary variation, and the generation of evidence for public health practice and policy-making.
Source: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice - Category: Health Management Tags: Research Reports: Research Full Report Source Type: research