Abstract: Promotion of Physical Activity for Youth

Learning objectives

On completion of this learning resource, students should be able to:

• Outline how common childhood obesity is in Australia, the associated risk factors, and the evidence for the morbidity it causes;
• Discuss the evidence for the efficacy of possible interventions to counteract childhood obesity;
• Identify and analyze the interests of possible stakeholder in a childhood obesity prevention and control program;
• Develop a model of the causes of childhood obesity in Australia;
• Identify what formative and baseline research needs to be undertaken towards planning a childhood obesity control program;
• Develop strategies to promote physical activity in children;
• Develop a communication strategy and key messages for the mass communication component of a program to promote physical activity in children;
• Develop the outline of an action plan to promote physical activity in children;
• Develop a plan for the evaluation of the media elements of a mass communication program to promote physical activity in children.