Baylor College of Medicine

Physical Activity

Women with disabilities have very low rates of physical activity, which may be an important contributor to overweight in this population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human ...
Kaleido Scope

National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability

Based out of the UAB School of Health Professions, the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) is an implementation science and resource center on health promotion for ...
The Conversation

Young children with disabilities are excluded from national physical activity monitoring. That needs to change.

Sophie M Phillips receives funding from Children's Health Research Institute and Mitacs. Leah Taylor receives funding from CIHR. Trish Tucker has received funding from CIHR, SSHRC, CFI, the Lawson ...
The Conversation

Paralympics haven’t decreased barriers to physical activity for most people with disabilities

Kathleen A. Martin Ginis receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, CIBC and Canadian ...
BMJ

World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

27 Department ofEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Germany 28 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia Faculty of ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Physical Activity and Disabilities

Women with disabilities are much more likely to have very low levels of physical activity than non-disabled women. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, people with ...

Young children with disabilities are excluded from national physical activity monitoring. That needs to change.

Physical activity is important for children; it supports improved health, development and sleep. However, children in the ...