Overview
- Provides valuable reading for epidemiologists, clinical exercise physiologists, and personal trainers
- Presents new directions for epidemiological research
- Indicates potential areas of development in objective monitoring technology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health (SSEH)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of pedometers and accelerometers. It reviews current advances in the technology of activity monitoring and details advantages of objective monitors relative to physical activity questionnaires. It points to continuing gaps in knowledge, and explores the potential for further advances in the design of objective monitoring devices.
Epidemiologists have studied relationships between questionnaire assessments of habitual physical activity and various medical conditions for some seventy years. In general, they have observed positive associations between regular exercise and good health, but because of inherent limitations in the reliability and accuracy of physical activity questionnaires, optimal exercise recommendations for the prevention and treatment of disease have remained unclear.
Inexpensive pedometers and accelerometers now offer the epidemiologist the potential to collect relatively precisely graded and objective information on the volume, intensity and patterns of effort that people are undertaking, to relate this data to past and future health experience, and to establish dose/response relationships between physical activity and the various components of health. Such information is important both in assessing the causal nature of the observed associations and in establishing evidence-based recommendations concerning the minimal levels of daily physical activity needed to maintain good health.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation
Editors: Roy J. Shephard, Catrine Tudor-Locke
Series Title: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29577-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29575-6Published: 10 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80604-4Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29577-0Published: 02 August 2016
Series ISSN: 1869-7933
Series E-ISSN: 1869-7941
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 383
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Sports Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Epidemiology