KINE 601- Reading Research Publications in Kinesiology
Other
Gray Lit | Evaluation of Articles | Exercise Guidelines | Statistics
Gray Literature: Conference Proceedings and Theses/Dissertations
- Conference Papers Index
- GPO Access: gov. reports
- NLM Gateway: search conference proceedings and other NLM reports
- PapersInvited
- Proquest Dissertations and Thesis
- Case Control Study
- Cohort Study
- Diagnostic Test Study
- Economic Evaluations
- Qualitative Research
- Randomized Control Trial
- Systematic Review
For everyone
- American Academy of Family Physicians: Exercise: How to Get Started
- CDC- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
- Effective Population-Level Strategies to Promote Physical Activity (from Guide to Community Preventive Services) from this article: Recommendations to increase physical activity in communities (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 67-72)
- Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook: program evaluation guide for physical activity interventions
- Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health
- Healthy People 2010: Chapter 22- Physical Activity and Fitness
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Information for Patients and the Public- Key Recommendations
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers, and community-based exercise programs for walking and cycling
- The Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review (from American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 22(4S: 73-107)
- President's Council on Pysical Fitness and Sports: variety of reports on fitness for all age groups
For adults and seniors
- American College of Sports Medicine
- Guidelines for healthy adults under age 65
- Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
- University of Iowa: Evidence based practice guideline: Exercise promotion: walking in elders
For children and adolescents
- American Academy of Pediatrics: Active healthy living: prevention of childhood obesity through increased physical activity
- American Heart Association: Overweight in children and adolescents: pathophysiology, consequences, prevention, and treatment
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Identifying and preventing overweight in childhood. Clinical practice guideline.
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls
- University of Iowa: Increasing physical activity in schools: kindergarten through eighth grade
For
chronic illness/pain patients
- American College of Sports Medicine Guidelines for healthy adults over age 65 or with 50-64 with chronic conditions
- American Heart Association:
- Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- Physical activity and exercise recommendations for stroke survivors
- School of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program (UT at Austin)
- United States Preventive Task Force: Primary care interventions to prevent low back pain in adults: recommendation statement
- Adolescent Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: health risk behavior statistics from 1996-present
- CDC Wonder (variety of health topics)
- Child Health USA: statistics on children's health
- Current Population Survey (CPS) includes data on income, health insurance coverage, and more
- Exercise/Physical Activity Data from National Health Statistics Center (CDC)
- Healthy People DATA 2010: data by focus area, data source, specific population group, and more
- Health Poll Search: interactive results from polls on health related issues
- Infant Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Men's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- Minority Health data from State Health Facts includes interactive tables, bar graphs, and maps
- Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) cultural specific pages (demographics, 10 leading causes of death, and more):
- African American
- American Indian & Alaska Native
- Asian American
- Hispanic or Latino
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
- Multiracial
- White
- U. S. Physical Activity Statistics from CDC
- Women's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
- World Health Organization: physical activity data
