Key documents - Physical Activity

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Physical Activity
Key documents

Getting there - on foot, by cycle (available from the Ministry of Transport) February 2005
A draft strategy to increase walking and cycling in New Zealand transport.

Healthy Eating – Healthy Action – Strategic Framework

Healthy Eating – Healthy Action – A Background Document

Healthy Eating – Healthy Action Implementation Plan

Physical Activity Toolkit

Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Adults: A background paper.

Cancer Control Strategy Report of the Primary Prevention Expert Working Group (PDF, 282kB, opens in new window)

SPARC Facts: Results of the New Zealand Sport and Physical Activity Surveys (1997-2001)

The Joint Policy Statement on Physical Activity (Minister of Health and Minister of Sport, Fitness and Leisure, 1999)

IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer). 2002. Weight Control and Physical Activity. IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention: vol 6. Lyon: IARC Press.

Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (2002 : Geneva, Switzerland). Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases: report of a joint WHO/FAO expert consultation, Geneva, 28 January -- 1 February 2002. (WHO technical report series ; 916)

WHO (2004). Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health (PDF, opens in new window) (Fifty-Seventh World Health Assembly A57/9 17 April 2004) WHO, Geneva.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical activity and health: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 1996.