Kinesiology 2276F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Active Transport, Weight Training, Outdoor Recreation

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2276F/G
• Professor: J.Paige Gregson

Document Summary

Lecture 15: social & environmental and policy approaches to. Understand the goals, effectiveness & drawbacks of social approaches. Understand the common goals of environmental & policy approaches. Identify the issues, effectiveness & drawbacks of policy and curriculum interventions. Identify the issues, effectiveness & drawbacks of enhancing access to facilities. Focus on structuring people"s social environments to help support their physical activity endeavours: recognize importance of social influences, create new social networks and strengthen existing networks. Effectiveness: can be grouped with other approaches, more effective in certain situations. Worksite & community exercise programs vs family based programs. Drawbacks: success contingent on cooperation of groups. Environmental & policy approaches to increasing physical activity. Designed to provide environmental oppourtunities, support, and cues to help people become more physically active. Directed towards the physical & organization structures. Based on the assumption that everyone has the ability of participating in physical. Involve many different sectors activity as long as they are motivated.