articles about health and physical education

Introduction. Regular physical activity participation throughout childhood provides immediate health benefits, by positively effecting body composition and musculo-skeletal development (Malina and Bouchard, 1991), and reducing the presence of coronary heart disease risk factors (Gutin et al., 1994).In recognition of these health benefits, physical activity guidelines for children and youth ...

Physical activity has many well-established mental health benefits. These are published in the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and include improved brain health and cognitive function (the ability to think, if you will), a reduced risk of anxiety and depression, and improved sleep and overall quality of life.

Physical education for healthier, happier, longer and more productive living. The time children and adults all over the world spend engaging in physical activity is decreasing with dire consequences on their health, life expectancy, and ability to perform in the classroom, in society and at work. In a new publication, Quality Physical Education ...

1. Introduction. Teaching in physical education has evolved rapidly over the last 50 years, with a spectrum of teaching styles [], teaching models [], curricular models [], instruction models [], current pedagogical models [5,6], and physical educational programs [].As schools provide benefits other than academic and conceptual skills at present, we can determine new ways to meet different ...

Physical Education and Physical Activity. Schools are in a unique position to help students attain the nationally recommended 60 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily. 1 Regular physical activity in childhood and adolescence is important for promoting lifelong health and well-being and preventing various health ...

Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University and Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania. Health and physical education includes subjects such as sport science, health studies, athlete ...

In this study we examined the associations of physical education class participation with physical activity among adolescents. We analysed the Global School-based Student Health Survey data from ...

Physical Fitness as a Learning Outcome of Physical Education and Its Relation to Academic Performance. Achieving and maintaining a healthy level of aerobic fitness, as defined using criterion-referenced standards from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; Welk et al., 2011), is a desired learning outcome of physical education programming.

1. Introduction. The positive and protective effects of physical activity (PA), such as enhanced physical health, psychological well-being, increased concentration, academic performance, and reduced feelings of depression and anxiety, have been well documented in earlier studies [1,2,3].Physical education (PE) is taught as a subject in many countries around the world, but it also incorporates ...

In many countries, health has in some way framed the history of physical education (PE) (Augestad, 2003; Kirk, 1992; Tinning and McCuaig, 2006), and PE has often been aligned with medicalized notions of health (Fitzpatrick and Tinning, 2014).Currently, health is a subject in formal education and is considered an important aspect of PE (Cale, 2020; Schenker, 2018; Stolz, 2014).

1/2 of U.S. high school students did not attend PE classes—which is consistent over the 24-year period studied (1991-2015). The percentage of U.S. high school students reporting PE attendance did not change significantly between 1991 and 2015 for the overall sample or across sex and race/ethnicity subgroup. Daily PE attendance did decrease 16 ...

Physical education as a discipline has long fought to be taken as seriously as its academic counterparts. Even before the pandemic, fewer than half the states set any minimum amount of time for students to participate in physical education, according to the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE), which represents PE and health ...

The concept of health. Globally, health has been advocated as a major objective for physical education, and despite the multiple ways that health can be understood, a specific mantra seemingly dominates Western physical education contexts in terms of health being connected to aerobic capacity, fitness, Body Mass Index, 10,000 steps per day, or body shape.

The goal of a CSPAP is to increase physical activity opportunities before, during, and after school and to increase students' overall physical activity and health. Healthy and physically active students tend to have better grades, school attendance, cognitive performance (e.g., memory), and classroom behaviors (e.g., on-task behavior).5,6 ...

The risk of mental health disorder was weighted against three metrics for physical fitness: cardio fitness, as measured by a student's time in an 800-meter run; muscle endurance, indicated by ...

An individual's physical and mental well-being is the concern of two similar areas of education: health education and physical education. Both deal with habits of exercise, sleep, rest, and recreation. Since physical well-being is only one aspect of a person's overall health, physical education is often thought of as a part of health education.

Physical education is the foundation of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. 1, 2 It is an academic subject characterized by a planned, sequential K-12 curriculum (course of study) that is based on the national standards for physical education. 2-4 Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for ...

Furthermore, the Seattle Public Schools "physical education" Policy (No. 2185) reinforces the strong health component and states, "It is the policy of the Seattle School Board that physical education is a core component of a school environment that promotes students' health, well-being, and ability to learn, as well as mitigates ...

Advantages of Physical Education. The benefits associated with physical education programming go far beyond accomplishments made in the gym. When students have the opportunity to step away from their desks and move their bodies in a physical education class, they gain the benefits of mental health support, stress relief, heart health, and more.

In 1991, Sallis and McKenzie (1991) published, "Physical Education's Role in Public Health" in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, with the goal of forging a productive relationship between the physical education and public health fields. At that time, public health interest in physical activity was increasing rapidly due to the steady stream of research on the numerous and ...

Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of disease, strengthen bones and muscles, and improve your ability to do everyday activities.. Adults who sit less and do any amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity gain some health benefits.

Unfortunately, while EIM has expanded and achieved many successes, only 22.9% of adult women and 17.8% of adult men were advised by health care professionals to increase their physical activity ...

The aim of this study was to explore instruction of social determinants of health (SDOH) for people with disabilities (PWD) in Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) education programs. Methods A sequential mixed methods study informed by a 5-member disability community advisory panel was conducted.

Aim The main objective of the study was to report the changes that have taken place in the practice of physical exercise during confinement and to examine the factors that favor or detract from it. Material and methods To determine the objective, a survey was carried out in the United States during the pandemic and a sample of 511 participants was obtained. A binary logit model was used to ...

Background . The state of research on unsettling experiences of students in physical education can be characterized as fragmented. The available studies focus on select emotions (e.g. fear), specific forms of discrimination (e.g. ableism), or different types of social interactions (e.g. bullying).

Students that attend physical education are: Approximately 2 - 3 times more likely to be active outside of school.5. Almost twice as likely to continue to be active to a healthy level in adulthood.5. *Doing any kind of physical activity that increased their heart rate and made them breathe hard some of the time during the 7 days before the survey.

Background Regulatory actions are increasingly used to tackle issues such as excessive alcohol or sugar intake, but such actions to reduce sedentary behaviour remain scarce. World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on sedentary behaviour call for system-wide policies. The Chinese government introduced the world's first nation-wide multi-setting regulation on multiple types of sedentary ...

Psychological wellbeing is defined as an individual's emotional health and overall functioning [ 18, 19 ]. Accordingly, the stimulus in this study is health education, which leads the students to improve their psychological well-being [ 20 ]. As stimulus-response theory highlights, the stimulus triggers any response.

Healthcare is experiencing a transformative phase, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Physical therapists (PT) stand on the brink of a paradigm shift in education, practice, and research. Rather than visualizing AI as a threat, it presents an opportunity to revolutionize.

Nearly 7% were physically inactive. A total of 93% met the minimum WHO recommendation for physical activity (>600 MET-minutes/week). 1 Since there was a huge proportion of students with a low level of physical activity, there is a need for focusing on health information systems regarding the importance of physical activity among medical students.