Zoekresultaten

Connecting physical education lessons and urban sports facilities in the urban space surrounding schools

Purpose: Adolescents are insufficiently physically active and spent too much time sitting, which provides a health risk. In the current study the municipality of Amsterdam, secondary schools, experts in urban sports and researchers work together to stimulate healthy exercise behavior of adolescents. The urban sports facilities in the city of Amsterdam are at the center of this project. A variety of urban sports facilities have been realized over the last years. It remains however unknown which adolescents actually use these facilities. When urban space planning and physical education (PE) lessons at school are aligned and adjusted to the needs and preferences of adolescents, adolescents probably feel more competent to use the urban sport facilities surrounding their schools. The goal of this project is twofold: 1) findings working principles for designing urban sports facilities in the urban space surrounding schools 2) identifying elements in secondary school physical education lessons that motivate adolescents to use the urban sports facilities.Methods: This was investigated by applying design thinking methods and co creation sessions with adolescents, PE teachers, school boards, municipality and experts in urban sports.Results: First results indicate that needs, wishes and barriers of adolescents with regard to the use of urban sports facilities are currently insufficiently documented. Moreover, physical education teachers lack a feeling of competence in providing urban sports classes and there is insufficient coordination between schools, the municipality and providers of urban sports. Next steps in the design thinking cycle will be discussed as well as implications for the municipality with regard to planning of urban sports facilities around school, and how to connect physical education programming inside and outside secondary schools.

Sensor monitoring system Hipper

The 2017 Dutch physical activity guidelines

Background: The objective of this study was to derive evidence-based physical activity guidelines for the general Dutch population. Methods: Two systematic reviews were conducted of English language meta-analyses in PubMed summarizing separately randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies on the relation between physical activity and sedentary behaviour on the one hand and the risk of all-cause mortality and incidence of 15 major chronic diseases and conditions on the other hand. Other outcome measures were risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, physical functioning, and fitness. On the basis of these reviews, an expert committee derived physical activity guidelines. In deriving the guidelines, the committee first selected only experimental and observational prospective findings with a strong level of evidence and then integrated both lines of evidence. Results: The evidence found for beneficial effects on a large number of the outcome measures was sufficiently strong to draw up guidelines to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour, respectively. At the same time, the current evidence did not provide a sufficient basis for quantifying how much physical activity is minimally needed to achieve beneficial health effects, or at what amount sedentary behaviour becomes detrimental. A general tenet was that at every level of current activity, further increases in physical activity provide additional health benefits, with relatively larger effects among those who are currently not active or active only at light intensity. Three specific guidelines on (1) moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity, (2) bone- and musclestrengthening activities, and (3) sedentary behaviour were formulated separately for adults and children. Conclusions: There is an unabated need for evidence-based physical activity guidelines that can guide public health policies. Research in which physical activity is measured both objectively (quantity) and subjectively (type and quality) is needed to provide better estimates of the type and actual amount of physical activity required for health.

Physical literacy

Hoe mooi zou het zijn als iedereen motorisch vaardig is, een positieve houding heeft ten opzichte van sport en bewegen, kennis heeft over het belang van sport en bewegen en in staat is om een krachtige beweegomgeving voor zichzelf en anderen te creëren. Zou het niet fantastisch zijn als deze grondhouding, kennis en motorische vaardigheden ertoe bijdragen dat alle mensen een leven lang deelnemen aan sport- en beweegsituaties? Dat is wat wij nastreven. Vanuit de gedachte: groot denken, maar klein beginnen, is in mei 2017 een enthousiaste groep mensen met uiteenlopende expertise - de ‘kwartiermakersgroep Physical Literacy’ – gestart met een verkenning naar de meerwaarde van het begrip ‘Physical Literacy’ voor de Nederlandse sport- en beweegpraktijk. In dit whitepaper schetsen we de noodzaak van een aangescherpte koers in het stimuleren van sport en bewegen en geven we aan hoe Physical Literacy kan bijdragen aan deze nieuwe koers.

Competenties voor het werken met Digital Health

The Hipper Therapeutics Platform

Software platform developed for the Hipper project. It supports remotely monitoring geriatric patients during (hip) rehabilitation. Activity data and location data are collected and securely communicated to a secure centralised server where the data are processed and made available on a secured website. Patients and therapists can then together determine the rehabilitation process and determine appropriate actions.--Dutch:Het Hipper-platform is bedoeld ter ondersteuning van therapeuten betrokken bij de revalidatie van ouderen na een heupoperatie. Het platform bestaat uit een nieuw behandelprotocol ondersteund door een technisch systeem waarmee activiteiten van ouderen in de woonomgeving kunnen worden gemeten. Deze informatie wordt gevisualiseerd en als feedback aan de therapeut gegeven. De therapeut kan hierdoor gerichter de behandeling uitvoeren. Het Hipper-platform biedt naast het behandelprotocol en sensortechnologie scholing en een helpdesk functie.