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  • awareness of the participACTION campaign among Canadian adults, examining the knowledge gap hypothesis and a hierarchy-of-effects model

    ParticipACTION was a pervasive communication campaign that promoted physical activity in the Canadian population for three decades. According to McGuire’s hierarchy-of-effects model (HOEM), this campaign should influence physical activity through…

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  • overview and introduction of baseline research on the 'new' ParticipACTION

    This paper provides a brief overview of the Canadian physical activity communications and social marketing organization “ParticipACTION”; introduces the “new” ParticipACTION; describes the research process leading to the collection of…

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  • implications for monitoring trends

    The current low level of physical activity among Canadians is a dominant public health concern. Accordingly, a clear understanding of physical activity patterns and trends is of paramount importance. Irregularities…

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  • an introduction

    The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), in partnership with Health Canada and others, released Canada’s first physical activity guide for adults in 1998, with specific versions for older adults…

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  • facts and future

    This article summarizes the main findings from the papers included in this journal supplement. It consolidates the evidence currently available to inform and advance the development of physical activity guidelines…

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  • new frontiers in physical activity assessment

    Canadian public health messages relating to physical activity have historically focused on the prescription of purposeful exercise, most often assessing leisure-time physical activity (LTPA). Although LTPA contributes to total energy…

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  • the next generation

    The accurate measurement of habitual physical activity is fundamental to the study of the relationship between physical activity and health. However, many physical activity measurement techniques produce variables accurate to…

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