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VicHealth CEO, Jerril Rechter, speaks about VicHealth's new strategic focus in physical activity and sport, and the exciting new funding opportunity - VicHealth Innovation Challange: Physical Activity.
This evidence summary outlines current physical activity and sedentary behaviour levels in Australia and Victoria. It provides an overview of the impacts of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, as well as barriers to and enablers of active lifestyles.
Understanding and addressing the barriers preventing more female participation in physical activity is complex.
VicHealth established a focus on increasing social and economic participation as a key priority area for action during 2009–13. This research summary provides a brief update on published research examining physical activity participation.
What do the leading researchers think? What does the latest research tell us about children and physical activity? What input can children have to influence their own environment? And what role can parents and families play?
This study looks at ways to enhance participation in sport and physical activity by first generation migrant communities at a high risk of cardiovascular disease.
Enhancing participation, sport and physical activity
To get more Victorians active including through sport and walking, VicHealth’s strategic approach focuses on making physical activity participation part of everyday living, and competitive and social sport.
Five Victorian councils ‘activated’ under-used public spaces within local communities to increase physical activity opportunities and social connection.
VicHealth has identified five life stages that give insights for engaging Victorians in physical activity.
The 2014 VicHealth Innovation Challenge: Physical Activity called for new ideas to get more Victorians physically active. We challenged you to take sport and physical activity in a new direction.
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for last Tuesday's Rapid Prototype Workshop for the Physical Activity Innovation Challenge with Doing Something Good.
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