About this Research Topic
Effective strategies for promoting health-enhancing physical activity, based on forming lifelong sustainable change in children's health behavior, can improve the quality of life of the population. Reviews addressing health promotion programs and increase the level of physical activity among children are important today. Meanwhile, many studies have recently detected changes in the social behavior of children. Society needs an adequate strategy in maintaining an increasingly active lifestyle for children. This type of societal intervention requires support from institutions from different levels: from the individual (home, family level) to sports organizations (group level) to and finally to the local communities (societal level). Also, successful intervention strategies combine a multi-component approach to promote children's physical activity. Lastly, society needs extensive evaluation and discussion of societal interventions from various settings to implement more effective strategies and decision-making processes.
This Research Topic aims to identify the effective strategies and good practices for promoting health-enhancing physical activity in childhood. In that way, these strategies can impact various health aspects. The topic creates an opportunity for publishing high-quality research related to strategies for effective physical activity promotion. We are interested in questions of broader interventions at the individual (home), group (school and sport organizations), and societal level (community). Papers that propose multi-component strategies in the context of activation of factors that contribute to encourage and maintain the active lifestyle of children. Also, we welcome papers that monitor the effects of environ- mental factors on changes in children's physical activity. In the theoretical aspect, these papers can contribute to additional argumentation about strategies that increase children's health-related behavior. In a practical aspect, these papers can contribute to possible solutions of the development of adequate strategies interventions in health-related physical activity behavior to reduce the spread of undesirable trends. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
We welcome Original Research, Review articles, Case Studies, Clinical Trials, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analyses regarding, but not limited to, topics such as:
• Individually adopted children's health behavior change programs;
• Physical activity promotion in the school settings;
• Physical activity promotion of children within the community and family;
• Multi-component strategies to promote physical activity in children;
• Development of a safe place of physical activity and to improve access to place and programs for children;
• Barriers and benefits of health- enhancing physical activity policies of children;
• Promoting sport and enhancing the health of children.
This Research Topic aims to identify the effective strategies and good practices for promoting health-enhancing physical activity in childhood. In that way, these strategies can impact various health aspects. The topic creates an opportunity for publishing high-quality research related to strategies for effective physical activity promotion. We are interested in questions of broader interventions at the individual (home), group (school and sport organizations), and societal level (community). Papers that propose multi-component strategies in the context of activation of factors that contribute to encourage and maintain the active lifestyle of children. Also, we welcome papers that monitor the effects of environ- mental factors on changes in children's physical activity. In the theoretical aspect, these papers can contribute to additional argumentation about strategies that increase children's health-related behavior. In a practical aspect, these papers can contribute to possible solutions of the development of adequate strategies interventions in health-related physical activity behavior to reduce the spread of undesirable trends. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
We welcome Original Research, Review articles, Case Studies, Clinical Trials, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analyses regarding, but not limited to, topics such as:
• Individually adopted children's health behavior change programs;
• Physical activity promotion in the school settings;
• Physical activity promotion of children within the community and family;
• Multi-component strategies to promote physical activity in children;
• Development of a safe place of physical activity and to improve access to place and programs for children;
• Barriers and benefits of health- enhancing physical activity policies of children;
• Promoting sport and enhancing the health of children.
Keywords: active lifestyle, exercise, children, health behavior, interventions
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