Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity—GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys

Background: Physical activity (PA) surveillance, policy, and research efforts need to be periodically appraised to gain insight into national and global capacities for PA promotion. The aim of this paper was to assess the status and trends in PA surveillance, policy, and research in 164 countries. Methods: We used data from the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) 2015 and 2020 surveys. Comprehensive searches were performed for each country to determine the level of development of their PA surveillance, policy, and research, and the findings were verified by the GoPA! Country Contacts. Trends were analyzed based on the data available for both survey years. Results: The global 5-year progress in all 3 indicators was modest, with most countries either improving or staying at the same level. PA surveillance, policy, and research improved or remained at a high level in 48.1%, 40.6%, and 42.1% of the countries, respectively. PA surveillance, policy, and research scores decreased or remained at a low level in 8.3%, 15.8%, and 28.6% of the countries, respectively. The highest capacity for PA promotion was found in Europe, the lowest in Africa and low- and lower-middle-income countries. Although a large percentage of the world’s population benefit from at least some PA policy, surveillance, and research efforts in their countries, 49.6 million people are without PA surveillance, 629.4 million people are without PA policy, and 108.7 million live in countries without any PA research output. A total of 6.3 billion people or 88.2% of the world’s population live in countries where PA promotion capacity should be significantly improved. Conclusion: Despite PA is essential for health, there are large inequalities between countries and world regions in their capacity to promote PA. Coordinated efforts are needed to reduce the inequalities and improve the global capacity for PA promotion

A diszlexia felismerése, és az érintettek helyzete a közoktatás egyes szakaszaiban

Dolgozatom célja, hogy bemutassa mennyire változatos formában jelenhet meg a diszlexia, és bizonyos életkorokban melyek azok a jelek, amik erre az állapotra utalnak. Az olvasás és írás életünk részei, szinte nincs olyan nap, amikor ne kellene valamilyen formában használnunk. A tanulási zavarral küzdőknek azonban ezek nagyobb kihívást jelentenek, több erőfeszítésre és gyakorlásra van szükségük, hogy elsajátítsák ezeket a folyamatokat. A diszlexiához köthető egyéb tünetek, és az esetleges negatív élmények hatalmas befolyással vannak az egyén életútjára. A segítő és támogató közeggel, valamint a megfelelő szakember kiválasztásával a helyzetük jelentős javulást eredményezhet.BSc/BAPedagógiaB

Úton az egészségorientált sportklubmodell bevezetéséhez Magyarországon = On the way towards health-oriented sport clubs in Hungary

„Több, mint egy klub” néven az egészségközpontú sportegyesületek modelljén nyugvó, társadalmi innovációs, kísérleti projektet indított a Nemzeti Diák-, Hallgatói és Szabadidősport Szövetség (NDHSZ) és a Debreceni Egyetemi Atlétikai Club (DEAC). A 'Több, mint egy klub' projekt célja az egészségfejlesztő testmozgás szemléletére épülő, innovatív modell kidolgozása és terjesztése. A nyitottságra építő modellt alkalmazó sportegyesületek szervezett keretek között zajló, egészségtudatos testedzési lehetőséget kínálnak a helyi lakosság széles rétegeinek, miközben lehetőségük nyílik a szervezeti megújulásra is. A projekt szemlélete az ún. Sports Clubs for Health (SCforH), az egészségorientált sportklubok modelljén alapszik, amelynek megvalósítását az Európai Unió 2013-ban ajánlásként fogalmazta meg a tagállamok számára. A cikkben a projektet megalapozó SCforH szemléletet mutatjuk be. | The National School, University and Leisure Sport Federation in cooperation with the University of Debrecen’s Athletic Club launched a social innovation project based on the Sports Clubs for Health (SCforH) approach. The title of the pilot project is „More than a club”. In the framework of the project, the partners aim to widen and develop the sport services of the clubs, highlighting the health-benefits of the sports; using their local and regional capacities, so that wider groups of the population will have access and benefit from the health-enhancing physical activities (HEPA). This will result regular HEPA opportunities provided by the club with the supervision of professional sport staff. The Sport Clubs for Health approach has been endorsed by the European Union and recommended to be implemented by the Member States in 2013. In this article the SCforH approach is presented

Conceptualizing Cuvée Organizations: Characteristics Leading towards Sustainable Decision-Making Practices

This paper discusses the role and responsibility of business organizations in a sustainability transition with a thought-provoking hypothetical construct, the cuvée organization. The aim of the paper is to introduce and conceptualize this normative concept on what sustainable and responsible business would look like in an ideal world—more specifically, which meta features should characterize a business organization that is designed for sustainability? It also tests the concept’s applicability to a micro-process, an everyday challenge any organization aiming for sustainability would face, namely discounting. The concept of the cuvée organization emerged from participatory backcasting, a normative scenario-building exercise conducted with a sustainability expert panel. In this co-creative process, the panel capitalized on the metaphor of cuvée wine and winemaking, which provided the cognitive means to chart the unknown. The emerged concept of the cuvée organization stands for a business archetype which is designed to serve a prosocial cause, subordinating activities and structural features accordingly. When applying this construct to discounting, our approach lies with ecological rationality in behavioral decision making as well as the practice-based approach of corporate strategy research. In this theoretically rigorous effort, we aim to show which meta-characteristics could support an organizational structure leading to better decision making, aiming to avoid various forms of temporal and spatial discounting. The originality of the research is filling the normative vision with details through the conceptualization of the cuvée organization. On the level of methodologies, our research contributes to understanding the novelty and applicability of backcasting processes and provides an astounding example for the use of metaphors in future studies

Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity—GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys

Background: Physical activity (PA) surveillance, policy, and research efforts need to be periodically appraised to gain insight into national and global capacities for PA promotion. The aim of this paper was to assess the status and trends in PA surveillance, policy, and research in 164 countries. Methods: We used data from the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) 2015 and 2020 surveys. Comprehensive searches were performed for each country to determine the level of development of their PA surveillance, policy, and research, and the findings were verified by the GoPA! Country Contacts. Trends were analyzed based on the data available for both survey years. Results: The global 5-year progress in all 3 indicators was modest, with most countries either improving or staying at the same level. PA surveillance, policy, and research improved or remained at a high level in 48.1%, 40.6%, and 42.1% of the countries, respectively. PA surveillance, policy, and research scores decreased or remained at a low level in 8.3%, 15.8%, and 28.6% of the countries, respectively. The highest capacity for PA promotion was found in Europe, the lowest in Africa and low- and lower-middle-income countries. Although a large percentage of the world’s population benefit from at least some PA policy, surveillance, and research efforts in their countries, 49.6 million people are without PA surveillance, 629.4 million people are without PA policy, and 108.7 million live in countries without any PA research output. A total of 6.3 billion people or 88.2% of the world’s population live in countries where PA promotion capacity should be significantly improved. Conclusion: Despite PA is essential for health, there are large inequalities between countries and world regions in their capacity to promote PA. Coordinated efforts are needed to reduce the inequalities and improve the global capacity for PA promotion.</jats:p