Taiwan’s latest Report Card highlights a persistent gap between strong institutional support for physical activity and the movement behaviours of children and adolescents. A new paper published by C.-K. Chang & C.-L. Wu in the Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness presents the 2025 Taiwan...
Government policies and strategies are an important source of influence on physical activity among children and adolescents. Within the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) Global Matrix, the Government indicator assesses government action to support physical activity through policies, strategies, legislation, funding, and implementation efforts....
Active transportation (AT) — walking, cycling, and other non-motorized ways children get from place to place — is one of the most accessible tools we have to keep kids moving. But how well do we actually measure it globally? This new open-access paper published in...
A group of researchers from Lithuania used the Global Matrix 3.0 on physical activity for children and youth and human development index data on the 18 European countries and recently published a paper titled "European Countries Ranking and Clustering Solution by Children’s Physical Activity and...
Congratulations to the Wales Report Card team on their recent paper titled "The AHK-Wales Report Card 2018: Policy Measures - is it possible to ‘score’ qualitative data?" that was just published in the Health Promotion International! A summary of the paper is below. To access...
Congratulations to a group of researchers from Europe on their paper, "Global Matrix 3.0 physical activity report card for children and youth: a comparison across Europe," that was just published in the Public Health journal! Citation details, highlights and a summary of the paper are...
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) PhD Candidate Silvia Gonzalez and colleagues just published a paper titled “Profiles of Active Transportation among Children and Adolescents in the Global Matrix 3.0 Initiative: A 49-Country Comparison” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public...
A paper titled "2018 Chilean Physical Activity Report Card for Children and Adolescents: Full Report and International Comparisons" was just published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Congratulations, team Chile! Aguilar-Farias, N., Miranda-Marquez, S., Martino-Fuentealba,...
OTTAWA, July 7 2020 A national survey commissioned by ParticipACTION shows evidence of collateral damage to the lifestyles of Canadian children and youth consequent to public health restrictions imposed to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Restricted access to playgrounds, schools, childcare, playdates, and instructions to...
Congratulations to the Dutch Report Card team on their recent paper, "Results from the Netherlands' 2018 Report Card and Report Card+ on physical activity for children and youth with and without chronic medical condition," just published in the Public Health journal! Citation details and a...
A paper titled "Results from Hong Kong’s 2019 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth with Special Educational Needs" was recently published in the Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness. This is the first Report Card for this population group in Hong Kong....
Dr. Salomé Aubert, recent Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) PhD graduate, is lead author on a paper, “Evaluation of the process and outcomes of the Global Matrix 3.0 of physical activity grades for children and youth” that was just published in the Journal of...
The Mexican Report Card Team are authors on a paper, “Mexico’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth: Full report,” that was recently published in The Pan American Journal of Public Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Argumedo G, Taylor JRL,...
Results from the Nepal’s 2018 Report Card were recently published in the Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Subedi, N., Paudel, S., Nepal, S., Karki, A., Magar, M., Mehata, S., & Lee, E.-Y. (2020). Results from...
Results from the France’s 2018 Report Card were recently published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Aubert, S., Aucouturier, J., Vanhelst, J., Fillon, A., Genin, P., Ganière, C., Praznoczy, C., Larras, B., Schipman,...
Results from the New Zealand 2018 Report Card, with a focus on active transportation, were recently published in the Journal of Transport & Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Melody Smith, Erika Ikeda, Scott Duncan, Ralph Maddison, Erica Hinckson, Kim Meredith-Jones,...
Results from the Lithuanian 2018 Report Card were recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Sukys, S.; Emeljanovas, A.; Gruodyte-Raciene, R.; Mieziene, B.; Trinkuniene, L.; Rutkauskaite, R.; Tremblay, M. Results from...
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian children’s fitness seen over the past 35 years with only a third of Canadian school-aged children meeting physical activity guidelines. Other research from the same survey showed that physical activity...
The South African Report Card Team are authors on a paper, "Results from the Healthy Active Kids South Africa 2018 Report Card," that was recently published in The South African Journal of Child Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. DRAPER, C...
Salomé Aubert, PhD candidate with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, is lead author on a paper, "The International Impact of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance Physical Activity Report Cards for Children and Youth," that was just published in the Journal of...
In a recently published study, Smouter and colleagues examined the associations between maximal oxygen uptake and body fat percentage among 979 adolescents (57% females) aged between 10 and 19 years from the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The authors also established the best VO2max cut-off...
Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is widely recognized as a key marker of cardiovascular health, which makes the monitoring of temporal trends a particularly interesting and relevant topic in population health. In light of this and using the same methodological approach used in previous studies of temporal...
Tomkinson and colleagues recently published an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in response to a previous editorial by Armstrong and Welsman, who criticized the use of field-based tests, such as the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT), as a measure of cardiorespiratory...
A study aiming to determine the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance and to assess whether these secular changes remained independent of changes in body mass was recently published in the Journal of Sport Sciences. This study quantified the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance of...
The Population Health Policy Laboratory (PHPL) at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan is seeking competitive applications for Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral degrees from candidates interested in conducting cutting-edge active living research using ubiquitous tools such...