Share: Essential Evidence
Top line: One significant contributor to crashes involving child pedestrians is vehicle speed. Issuing specific guidelines about appropriate speeds, drawing drivers’ attention to the discrepancy between their beliefs and behaviours and enforcing the actual speed limit in the presence of child pedestrians are potentially promising strategies.
Top line: Public health’s return to local government provides a major opportunity to provide more integrated services where improved health as an outcome is embedded within service ethos and delivery.
Top line: The risk of increasing falls among a largely sedentary older population can be reduced through physical activity. Walking, as the most readily available physical activity, can contribute to the prevention of falls through maintaining or increasing leg muscle and bone strength.
Top line: Physical fitness and physical activity are strongly linked with lower risk of illhealth from infections such as the common cold. Walking and cycling, as routine physical activities, provide increased protection against such causes of ill-health through enhanced immune function.
Top line: There is a relationship between the amount of physical activity, disease risk and premature death. In short, even a little physical activity is good; more is better.
Top line: Research suggests that normative information is a powerful but undetected form of social influence. Although people may not believe that the behaviours of others should motivate them to change their behaviours, such as to conserve energy, their behaviour is powerfully influenced by it nonetheless.
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