Olga L. Sarmiento

TL;DR: A review of physical activity interventions, published between 2000 and 2011, and identifi ed eff ective, promising, or emerging interventions from around the world are recommended in this paper, where the informational approaches of community-wide and mass media campaigns, and short physical activity messages targeting key community sites are recommended.

TL;DR: Recommendations include creation and improvement of access to places for physical activity with informational outreach activities, community-scale and street-scale urban design and land use, active transport policy and practices, and community-wide policies and planning.

TL;DR: Design of urban environments has the potential to contribute substantially to physical activity and similarity of findings across cities suggests the promise of engaging urban planning, transportation, and parks sectors in efforts to reduce the health burden of the global physical inactivity pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how road facility designs, like street density, connectivity, and proximity to Ciclovia lanes, are associated with physical activity, while other attributes of the built environment, like density and land-use mixtures, are not.

TL;DR: The lessons learned after 10 years of use of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) in Brazil and Colombia are described, with special emphasis on recommendations for future research in Latin America using this instrument.