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Assessing physical fitness and physical activity in population-based surveys

Edited by Thomas F. Drury.Includes bibliographical references and index.National Center for Health Statistics. Assessing Physical Fitness and Physical Activity in Population-Based Surveys. Thomas F. Drury, ed. DHHS pub. No, (PHS) 89-1253. Public Health Service. Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1989Part I. Historical Perspectives -- 1. General Population Surveys of the National Center for Health Statistics: An Overview / Nancy D. Pearce -- 2. Cardiovascular Endurance, Strength, and Lung Function Tests in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys / Arthur J. McDowell -- 3. Assessments of Body Composition, Dietary Patterns, and Nutritional Status in the National Health Examination Surveys and National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys / Dorothy Blair,Jean-Pierre Habicht,andLeeAlekel -- -- Part II. Fundamental Perspectives on Health-Related Physical Fitness and Cardiopulmonary -- Health -- 4. Design Issues and Alternatives in Assessing Physical Fitness Among Apparently Healthy Adults in a Health Examination Survey of the General Population / Jack H. Wilmore -- 5. An Integrative Approach to the Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Function During Exercise / Karlman Wasserman -- -- Part III. Fundamental Perspectives on Energy Balance, Dietary Patterns, and Physical Activity -- 6. General Considerations Related to Assessing Energy Turnover: Energy Intake or Energy Expenditure / E. R. Buskirk -- 7. Issues Related to Measuring Energy Balance for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey / Dorothy Blair -- 8. Measuring Dietary Patterns in Surveys of Physical Fitness and Activity / Catherine E. Woteki -- 9. Design Issues and Alternatives in Assessing Physical Activity in General Population Surveys / Thomas Stephens -- -- Part IV. Special Subpopulation Issues -- 10. Fitness and Activity Assessment of Children and Adolescents / Oded Bar-Or -- 11, Evaluating Fitness and Activity Assessments From the National Children and Youth Fitness Studies I and II / James G. Ross -- 12. Assessing Fitness and Activity Patterns of Women in General Population Studies / Barbara L. Drinkwater -- 13. Exercise Testing and Physical Activity Assessment of Persons with Selected Cardiac Conditions / Nanette Kass Wenger -- 14. Health-Related Fitness of the Older Adult / Everett L. Smith and Catherine Gilligan -- -- Part V. Lessons From Community, National, and International Studies -- 15. Lessons from Tecumseh on the Assessment of Physical Activity and Fitness / Henry J. Montoye -- 16. Fitness and Activity Assessments Among U.S.Army Populations: Implications for NCHS General Population Surveys / James A. Vogel -- 17. Fitness and Activity Measurement in the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey / Thomas Stephens and Cora Lynn Craig -- 18. An International Perspective on Critical Issues in Fitness Testing of U.S. Adults / Roy J. Shephard -- -- Part VI. Contexts of Evaluation -- 19. Genetic Considerations in Physical Fitness / Robert M. Malina and Claude Bouchard -- 20. Biochemical Correlates of Fitness and Exercise / William L. Haskell -- 21. Evaluating the Health Effects of Demanding Work on and off the Job / James S. House and David A. Stiti -- 22. Effects of Physical Activity and Fitness on Health / Arthur S. Leon -- 23. Measurement and Evaluation of Health Behaviors in Relationship to Physical Fitness and Physical Activity Patterns / Steven N. Blair and Harold W. Kohl -- 24. Evaluating Interrelationships Among Physical Fitness and Activity Assessments / Ronald E. LaPorte -- 25. Cardiovascular Epidemiological Research Uses of Fitness Assessments / Erika S. Sivarajan and Victor F. Froelicher -- 26. Epidemiologic Uses of General Population Assessments of Physical Activity Patterns / Robert T. Hyde and Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr. -- -- Part VII. Measurement and Analysis Strategies -- 27. Use of Latent VariableModels in Measuring Physical Fitness and Physical Activity / George W. Bohrnstedt and Joseph Lucke -- 28. Applying Regression and Factor Analysis of Categorical Variables to Fitness and Exercise Data / Bengt Muthen and Lynn Short -- 29. Latent Class Analysis / Allan L. McCutcheon -- -- Appendix. Framingham Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire / Andrew L. Dannenberg and Peter W. F. Wilson1989833