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1Central Queensland University, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia. k.mummery@cqu.edu.au
Objectives:
To reflect on whole community intervention approaches to promoting physical activity, using experiences from the 10,000 Steps Rockhampton project.
Design:
Many studies are quasi-experimental with single site intervention and comparison communities.
Setting And Participants:
Whole communities.
Intervention:
Coordinated multiple strategies designed to address individual, interpersonal and environmental determinants of physical activity.
Main Outcome Measure:
Physical activity
Results:
There are many challenges to conducting whole community interventions. Developing community partnerships and coalitions, reaching socially disadvantaged groups, and developing effective evaluation methods are identified as specific concerns.
Conclusions:
Despite the challenges, the whole community approach still offers tremendous potential for developing the social and cultural change which will be required for sustained improvements in population physical activity.
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