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Insufficient physical activity

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Last updated: 20 Oct 2020
Topic: Risk factors

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020. Insufficient physical activity . Cat. no. PHE 248. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 20 April 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/risk-factors/insufficient-physical-activity

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Insufficient physical activity . Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/risk-factors/insufficient-physical-activity

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Insufficient physical activity . Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 20 October 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/risk-factors/insufficient-physical-activity

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Insufficient physical activity [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020 [cited 2021 Apr. 20]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/risk-factors/insufficient-physical-activity

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Participating in regular physical activity provides many benefits for physical and mental health at all ages, and can also help manage biomedical risk factors such as high body weight, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Insufficient physical activity is a key risk factor contributing to disease burden in Australia. Given it plays a role in chronic conditions, it is important for Australians to achieve the levels of activity outlined in Australia’s Physical Activity and Sedentary behaviour guidelines.

  • Cat. no: PHE 248
Findings from this report:
  • 15% of adults met both the physical activity and muscle strengthening activity guidelines in 2017–18

  • 12% of children and 2% of adolescents met the physical activity and screen-based behaviour guidelines in 2011–12

  • 17% of 2–5 year olds met the physical activity and screen-based behaviour guidelines on 7 days in 2011–12

  • In 2017–18, 23% of adults met the muscle strengthening activity guidelines (22% of women and 25% of men)

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