Paul Innerd

Physical Activity Assessment

A Lifecourse Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a thorough grounding in physical activity assessment from a lifecourse perspective. It offers guidance on the optimal measurement techniques, suggesting how data should be collected, analysed and quantified, and what these methods mean for guidelines, interventions, and public health outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 231mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781138059993
• ISBN-10: 1138059994
• Artikelnr.: 57384672

Autorenporträt

Paul Innerd is a Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Physical activity assessment: a lifecourse perspective
1. Lifecourse assessment of physical activity
2. Population-based surveillance
3. Physical activity in lifecourse epidemiology
Part II: Current measurement methods used across the lifecourse
4. Interpreting method comparison studies
5. Popular assessment methods
6. Physical activity monitors in epidemiology
Part III: Optimal measurement of physical activity across the lifecourse
7. The technology of accelerometry
8. Assessing physical activity using a single accelerometer
9. E-science: big data, management, processing and analysis
10. Physical activity assessment in lifecourse epidemiology: future
horizons