World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour.
Journal: British journal of sports medicine
Volume: 54
Issue: 24
Year of Publication: 2021
Affiliated Institutions:
Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland bullf@who.int.
Health Promotion Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Age Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.
Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland.
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
Departments of Medicine, and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
MRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Department of Exercise and Nutrition Science, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Science, Oslo, Norway.
NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, CancerControl Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Department of Non-Commuicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya.
Centre for Exercise, Nutrition & Health Science, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Population and Public Health Sciences, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Research Centre for Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport, Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Department ofEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UK.
PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through physical activity) research group, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Research Institute of Sport and Health, University of Granada, Spain.
Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit and Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract summary
To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour.The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Guideline Development Group reviewed evidence to assess associations between physical activity and sedentary behaviour for an agreed set of health outcomes and population groups. The assessment used and systematically updated recent relevant systematic reviews; new primary reviews addressed additional health outcomes or subpopulations.The new guidelines address children, adolescents, adults, older adults and include new specific recommendations for pregnant and postpartum women and people living with chronic conditions or disability. All adults should undertake 150-300 min of moderate-intensity, or 75-150 min of vigorous-intensity physical activity, or some equivalent combination of moderate-intensity and vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, per week. Among children and adolescents, an average of 60 min/day of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity across the week provides health benefits. The guidelines recommend regular muscle-strengthening activity for all age groups. Additionally, reducing sedentary behaviours is recommended across all age groups and abilities, although evidence was insufficient to quantify a sedentary behaviour threshold.These 2020 WHO guidelines update previous WHO recommendations released in 2010. They reaffirm messages that some physical activity is better than none, that more physical activity is better for optimal health outcomes and provide a new recommendation on reducing sedentary behaviours. These guidelines highlight the importance of regularly undertaking both aerobic and muscle strengthening activities and for the first time, there are specific recommendations for specific populations including for pregnant and postpartum women and people living with chronic conditions or disability. These guidelines should be used to inform national health policies aligned with the and to strengthen surveillance systems that track progress towards national and global targets.
Authors & Co-authors:
Bull
Al-Ansari
Biddle
Borodulin
Buman
Cardon
Carty
Chaput
Chastin
Chou
Dempsey
DiPietro
Ekelund
Firth
Friedenreich
Garcia
Gichu
Jago
Katzmarzyk
Lambert
Leitzmann
Milton
Ortega
Ranasinghe
Stamatakis
Tiedemann
Troiano
van der Ploeg
Wari
Willumsen
Study Outcome
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