ReviewLancet (London, England)2016
Scaling up physical activity interventions worldwide: stepping up to larger and smarter approaches to get people moving.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 322 papers, 17 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effectiveness of Adapted Taekwondo, Multi-component Training and Walking on Health Status in Independent Older Women: a Randomized Controlled Trial With Group and Inter-individual Analysis
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Implementation of an eHealth Platform for Promoting Healthy Habits Among Adolescents From Socially Disadvantaged Settings: the ePro-Schools Project
Who cites it
322 citing papers in PubMed, 17 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of digital multimodal interventions on objectively measured physical activity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Underlying strategies of scaling up and sustaining physical activity interventions.Frontiers in health services · 2026Pooled it
- Associations Between the Built Environment and Adult Obesity and the Mediating Role of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Recreational physical activity and health-related quality of life among breast cancer survivors: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Prevention of Obesity among Adults: Evidence- and Consensus-Based Guideline.Obesity facts · 2025Guideline
- Behaviour change interventions to improve physical activity in adults: a systematic review of economic evaluations.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Pharmacists' involvement in physical activity promotion in community pharmacy: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- Systems approaches to scaling up: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of evidence for physical activity and other behavioural non-communicable disease risk factors.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of adaptations and effectiveness of scaled-up nutrition interventions.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Tai Chi for cancer survivors: A systematic review toward consensus-based guidelines.Cancer medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing community-based physical activity interventions: a qualitative systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Olympic Combat Sports on Older Adults' Health Status: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review of international clinical guidelines for the promotion of physical activity for the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases.BMC family practice · 2021Pooled it
- Long-term Effectiveness of mHealth Physical Activity Interventions: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- How effective are physical activity interventions when they are scaled-up: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Olympic Combat Sports on Health-Related Quality of Life in Middle-Aged and Older People: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Implementation of Telerehabilitation Interventions for the Self-Management of Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Pooled it
- Measuring stability and change in response patterns to a set of hierarchical scales in a randomized intervention study: an innovative application of latent transition analysis.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Trial
- Sustainable improvement of interprofessional care for better resident outcomes: protocol for the INTERSCALE hybrid type III effectiveness cluster-randomized trial comparing individualized and collaborative delivery of an evidence-based care model for long-term care.Implementation science : IS · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of supervised vs brief counselling physical activity promotion interventions in breast cancer survivors on aromatase inhibitors: the PAC-WOMAN randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
262 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The global pandemic of physical inactivity requires a multisectoral, multidisciplinary public-health response. Scaling up interventions that are capable of increasing levels of physical activity in populations across the varying cultural, geographic, social, and economic contexts worldwide is challenging, but feasible. In this paper, we review the factors that could help to achieve this. We use a mixed-methods approach to comprehensively examine these factors, drawing on the best available evidence from both evidence-to-practice and practice-to-evidence methods. Policies to support active living across society are needed, particularly outside the health-care sector, as demonstrated by some of the successful examples of scale up identified in this paper. Researchers, research funders, and practitioners and policymakers in culture, education, health, leisure, planning, and transport, and civil society as a whole, all have a role. We should embrace the challenge of taking action to a higher level, aligning physical activity and health objectives with broader social, environmental, and sustainable development goals.
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