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The importance of population-wide interventions for disease prevention and health promotion has been increasingly recognized among both researchers and health professionals. To stimulate and accelerate research on community-wide intervention for physical activity promotion, the strategies used for and scientific evidence of community-wide intervention program effectiveness were reviewed and the profile of our research, which is intended to promote physical activity in the whole population, of the community was described.
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Arao, T. (2015). Population Strategy for Physical Activity Promotion in the Community. In: Kanosue, K., Oshima, S., Cao, ZB., Oka, K. (eds) Physical Activity, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior and Health. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55333-5_2
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