@article{34ced4fa34b7459394898034de2b46a4,
title = "The implications of megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation for changes in global physical activity",
abstract = "Physical inactivity accounts for more than 3 million deaths per year, most from non-communicable diseases in lowincome and middle-income countries. We used reviews of physical activity interventions and a simulation model to examine how megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation directly and indirectly affect levels of physical activity across countries of low, middle, and high income. The model suggested that the direct and potentiating effects of information and communication technology, especially mobile phones, are nearly equal in magnitude to the mean effects of planned physical activity interventions. The greatest potential to increase population physical activity might thus be in creation of synergistic policies in sectors outside health including communication and transportation. However, there remains a glaring mismatch between where studies on physical activity interventions are undertaken and where the potential lies in low-income and middle-income countries for populationlevel effects that will truly affect global health.",
author = "Michael Pratt and Sarmiento, {Olga L.} and Felipe Montes and David Ogilvie and Marcus, {Bess H.} and Perez, {Lilian G.} and Brownson, {Ross C.} and Alkandari, {Jasem R.} and Andersen, {Lars Bo} and Bauman, {Adrian E.} and Blair, {Steven N.} and Bull, {Fiona C.} and Craig, {Cora L.} and Ulf Ekelund and Shifalika Goenka and Regina Guthold and Hallal, {Pedro C.} and Haskell, {William L.} and Heath, {Gregory W.} and Shigeru Inoue and Sonja Kahlmeier and Katzmarzyk, {Peter T.} and Kohl, {Harold W.} and Lambert, {Estelle Victoria} and Lee, {I. Min} and Grit Leetongin and Felipe Lobelo and Loos, {Ruth J.F.} and Martin, {Brian W.} and Neville Owen and Parra, {Diana C.} and Pekka Puska and Reis, {Rodrigo S.} and Sallis, {James F.} and Wells, {Jonathan C.}",
note = "Funding Information: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We thank Andr{\'e}s Medaglia Gonz{\'a}lez and Roberto Zarama for their mentoring support and Carlos Grijalba, Carlos Pedraza, and Andrea Ramirez for their contributions to the systematic search (Universidad de los Andes, Bogot{\'a}, Colombia), and Britta Larsen (University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA) and Madalena Soares (CDC) for their assistance with the report; several organisations that have provided grant support to one or more of the authors and their research teams: the Coca Cola Company (unrestricted training grant to the CDC Foundation in support of the work of MP, LGP, and Madalena Soares); the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (partial support of in-person writing meetings in Atlanta, GA, USA, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the Centre for Diet and Activity Research, a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence funded by the British Heart Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (support of DO); the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Basic and Applied Complexity, CeiBA (Bogot{\'a}, Colombia; Colciencias grant 519 2010, support of FM); and the CDC Prevention Research Center's programme contract U48/DP001903 (Applying Evidence–Physical Activity Recommendations in Brazil) for support of RCB. ",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60736-3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "380",
pages = "282--293",
journal = "The Lancet",
issn = "0140-6736",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "9838",
}