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Title The objective monitoring of physical activity : contributions of accelerometry to epidemiology, exercise science and rehabilitation / Roy J. Shephard, Catrine Tudor-Locke, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Series Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
Springer series on epidemiology and health.
Contents Introduction: A New Perspective on the Epidemiology of Physical Activity; Issues to Be Discussed; References; Contents; Meet the Authors; Chapter 1: Physical Activity and Optimal Health: The Challenge to Epidemiology; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Definitions of Physical Activity and Exercise; 1.2.1 Physical Activity; 1.2.2 Exercise; 1.2.3 International Consensus Conference Definitions; 1.2.4 World Health Organisation Definition of Physical Activity; 1.3 Questionnaire Assessments of Intensity, Frequency and Duration of Activity; 1.4 Precautions Needed During Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity
1.4.1 Reactive Response to Activity Measurement1.4.2 Minimum Sampling Period; 1.5 Interpretation of Measurements Obtained from Objective Monitors; 1.5.1 Step Counts; 1.5.1.1 The 10,000 Step/Day Target; 1.5.1.2 Equating Step Counts with Public Health Activity Recommendations; 1.5.1.3 Arbitrary Classification of Activity Patterns; 1.5.2 Estimates of Exercise Intensity; 1.6 Reliability and Validity of Objective Monitoring; 1.6.1 Steady Walking; 1.6.2 Variations in the Speed and Pattern of Walking; 1.6.3 Free-Living Conditions
1.7 Medical Conditions Potentially Modified by Intensity and/or Volume of Habitual Physical Activity1.7.1 Conditions of Interest; 1.7.2 Need for Enhanced Objective Monitors; 1.7.3 New Insights from Objective Monitoring; 1.7.3.1 Relative Value of Activity and Fitness Indices; 1.7.3.2 Thresholds of Benefit; 1.7.3.3 Ceilings of Benefit; 1.7.3.4 Form of Physical Activity/Health Relationship; 1.8 Inference of Causality; 1.8.1 Spurious Associations; 1.8.2 Indirect Associations; 1.8.3 Criteria Suggesting a Causal Association; 1.8.3.1 Strength of the Association
1.8.3.2 Consistency of the Association1.8.3.3 Temporally Correct Association; 1.8.3.4 Specificity of the Association; 1.8.3.5 Biological Gradient; 1.8.3.6 Biological Plausibility; 1.8.3.7 Coherence; 1.8.3.8 Experimental Verification; 1.8.3.9 Analogy; 1.8.4 Critique of the Bradford Hill Criteria; 1.8.4.1 Direct Evidence; 1.8.4.2 Mechanistic Evidence; 1.8.4.3 Parallel Evidence; 1.9 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: A History of Physical Activity Measurement in Epidemiology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cardiac Epidemic; 2.3 The Occupational Epidemiology of Physical Activity and Health
2.3.1 Jeremiah Noah Morris2.3.2 Ralph Paffenbarger; 2.3.3 Henry Longstreet Taylor; 2.3.4 Conclusions from Occupational Comparisons; 2.4 Athletic Status and Health; 2.4.1 Comparisons Between Athletes and the General Population; 2.4.2 University Athletes and Their Academic Peers; 2.4.3 Conclusions from Studies Based on Athletes; 2.5 Exercise Group Assignment in Quasi-experimental Studies of Fitness and Health; 2.5.1 The Trois Rivières Regional Study; 2.5.2 Quasi-experimental Assignment to a Work-Site Fitness Programme; 2.5.3 Conclusions
Summary This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of pedometers and accelerometers. It reviews current advances in the technology of activity monitoring and details advantages of objective monitors relative to physical activity questionnaires. It points to continuing gaps in knowledge, and explores the potential for further advances in the design of objective monitoring devices. Epidemiologists have studied relationships between questionnaire assessments of habitual physical activity and various medical conditions for some seventy years. In general, they have observed positive associations between regular exercise and good health, but because of inherent limitations in the reliability and accuracy of physical activity questionnaires, optimal exercise recommendations for the prevention and treatment of disease have remained unclear. Inexpensive pedometers and accelerometers now offer the epidemiologist the potential to collect relatively precisely graded and objective information on the volume, intensity and patterns of effort that people are undertaking, to relate this data to past and future health experience, and to establish dose/response relationships between physical activity and the various components of health. Such information is important both in assessing the causal nature of the observed associations and in establishing evidence-based recommendations concerning the minimal levels of daily physical activity needed to maintain good health
Notes 2.6 Questionnaire and Diary Assessments of Leisure Activity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters
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Subject Exercise -- Physiological aspects.
Epidemiology.
Exercise.
Medical rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation.
Accelerometry
Epidemiology
Exercise
Rehabilitation
pardons.
Rehabilitation.
Sports injuries & medicine.
Public health & preventive medicine.
Epidemiology & medical statistics.
Physiology.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Rehabilitation
Medical rehabilitation
Exercise
Epidemiology
Exercise -- Physiological aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Shephard, Roy J
Tudor-Locke, Catrine
ISBN 9783319295770
3319295772
3319295756
9783319295756