This panel will present a national physical activity promotion strategy drawing on the lesson’s learned from tobacco. The panel moderator will present the plan to three reacting panelists: Larry Green, CDC, Paul Couzelis, the National Coaltion for Promoting Physical Activity, and Dave Hunnicutt, Wellness Councils of America. The panelists will respond to the theoretical and logical validity of the plan, and the practicality of its national and local implementation. The logic model that supports the proposed policy strategies to change the behaviors of tobacco and physical activity will be approached through an examination of the predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors that affect the worksite, school and community’s physical and social environments. Policy strategy to restrict tobacco use has been punitive and implemented through local, state and national legislation. However physical activity promotion requires incentives and policies enacted within a critical mass of institutions. This panel will examine if four or five best practice strategies that parallel tobacco’s clean indoor air, youth access restriction, advertising restriction and tax implementation can be identified for physical activity. The plan promotes the dissemination of best practice strategies sequentially to realistically accommodate limited manpower and resources. The strategy will propose alignment, coordination and integration of community, state and national coalition’s goals and objectives with the Healthy People 2010 Chronic Disease Objectives.
Learning Objectives: Understand the predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors that contribute to tobacco use and physical activity. Identify the similarities and differences in the population based strategies necessary to discourage tobacco-use and promote physical activity. Develop a sequence based community physical activity policy strategy.
Keywords: Physical Activity, Policy/Policy Development
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.