ReviewLancet (London, England)2012
The implications of megatrends in information and communication technology and transportation for changes in global physical activity.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions on Barriers to the Participation of Adolescents in Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Global, regional, and national trends and patterns in physical activity research since 1950: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- What is the role of smartphones on physical activity promotion? A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of public health · 2019Pooled it
- Measuring and influencing physical activity with smartphone technology: a systematic review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Pooled it
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- User Perception of a Smartphone App to Promote Physical Activity Through Active Transportation: Inductive Qualitative Content Analysis Within the Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI) Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- A multilevel approach for promoting physical activity in rural communities: a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2019Trial
- Economic Analysis of Primary Care-Based Physical Activity Counseling in Older Men: The VA-LIFE Trial.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2017Trial
- Exercise-referral scheme to promote physical activity among hypertensive patients: design of a cluster randomized trial in the Primary Health Care Units of Mexico's Social Security System.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Comparison of two school-based programmes for health behaviour change: the Belo Horizonte Heart Study randomized trial.Public health nutrition · 2014Trial
- Information processing versus social cognitive mediators of weight loss in a podcast-delivered health intervention.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2014Trial
- Sitting still while the world gets sicker: Rethinking physical inactivity as a public health emergency.BMC global and public health · 2026Review
- Insufficient physical activity and diabetes mellitus prevalence in Iran: an estimated population attributable fraction analysis using STEPS 2021 data.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Older adults' Internet use behavior and its association with accelerometer-derived physical activity.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Differences in Falls and Physical Activity in Older Women From Two Generations.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- The effect of internet use on depressive symptoms in older adults: based on the chain mediating role of physical exercise and self-rated health.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Association between Adult Sport, Fitness, and Recreational Physical Activity and Number and Age of Children Present in the Household: A Secondary Analysis Using NHANES.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Active school commuting in adolescents from 28 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia: a temporal trends study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
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Abstract
Physical inactivity accounts for more than 3 million deaths per year, most from non-communicable diseases in low-income 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 eff ects of information and communication technology, especially mobile phones, are nearly equal in magnitude to the mean eff ects 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 population-level effects that will truly affect global health.
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