ACTIVE: a technical package for increasing physical activity
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The Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018–2030 provides a shared vision of More active people for a healthier world and sets out goals to achieve a relative reduction in global levels of physical inactivity of 10% by 2025 and 15% by 2030. The action plan outlines four objectives and 20 recommended evidence-based policies applicable and adaptable to all country contexts to increase levels of physical activity (1), and provides countries with a roadmap for implementing a national response to increase health and wellbeing. Collectively, the 20 recommended policies form a “whole system” approach to increasing the opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to be more physically active every day, at home, work, school and in their local communities. This ACTIVE technical package is the first of several implementation tools that the World Health Organization (WHO) will develop to support countries plan, implement and evaluate the implementation of the Global Action Plan. It outlines four policy action areas, which directly reflect the four objectives of the Global Action Plan endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2018, and identifies the key policies within each action area:
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