• PA has significant health benefits for hearts, bodies and minds
• PA contributes to preventing and managing non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes
• PA reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety
• PA enhances thinking, learning and judgment skills
• PA ensures healthy growth and development in young people
• PA improves overall well-being
• Globally, 1 in 4 adults do not meet the global recommended levels of physical activity
• People who are insufficiently inactive have a 20-30% increased risk of death compared to people who are sufficiently active
• More than 80% of the world's adolescent population is insufficiently physically active
  

Consider overall activity and not only physical activity

Sleep

Why is it so difficult to be physically active?

The public health perspective

• public health gains will be greatest
• when we help the least active become more active NOT by just making the active even more active
• by emphasising behaviours for many people (small changes across large populations)