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People, places...and other people? Integrating understanding of intrapersonal, social and environmental determinants of physical activity
“People or places: what should be the target?” was the provocative title of a keynote session at the fifth Australian National Physical Activity Conference held in Melbourne in 2005. This paper will argue that in fact there need not be major conflict between these views, and that couching recent debate about physical activity promotion as a polarised choice between these presents a false dichotomy. To illustrate this, the paper will consider several problems with singular approaches to understanding and promoting physical activity, and will then describe emerging empirical evidence on the nexus between people and places. To balance an increasing emphasis in the scientific literature on physical environmental determinants of physical activity, the role of intrapersonal and social factors will also be revisited. It is concluded that growing evidence supporting the multiple domains of influence on physical activity justifies calls for multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships and approaches to the promotion of active lifestyles.
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Journal of science and medicine in sportVolume
9Issue
5Pagination
367 - 370Publisher
Elsevier (Australia)Location
Chatswood, NSWPublisher DOI
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1440-2440eISSN
1878-1861Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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