Results From Wales’ 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
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Date
2018-11-27Acceptance date
2018-10-15
Type
Article
Publisher
Human Kinetics
ISSN
1543-3080
1543-5474 (online)
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This is the third Active Healthy Kids Wales (AHK-Wales) Report Card following the inaugural and second report card published in 2014 and 2016 respectively.1,2 The 2018 report card (Figure 1) consolidates and translates research related to physical activity among children and young people in Wales. The report card aimed to raise the awareness of children and young people’s engagement in physical activity behaviours and influences, and advocate for children’s right to be active and healthy.
Journal/conference proceeding
Journal of Physical Activity & Health;
Citation
Edwards, L.C., Tyler, R., Blain, D., Bryant, A., Canham, N., Carter-Davies, L., Clark, C., Evans, T., Greenall, C., Hobday, J., Jones, A. et al (2018) 'Results from Wales’ 2018 report card on physical activity for children and youth', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15(Supplement 2), pp.S430-S432.
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Article published in Journal of Physical Activity and Health available at https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2018-0544
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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