Fitness measures and health outcomes in youth

"Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related...

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Main Author: Pate, Russell R.
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth
Other Authors: Oria, Maria, Pillsbury, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press 2012, c2012
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300 |a xiii, 259 p  |b ill.  |c 23 cm 
505 0 |a Includes bibliographic references 
505 0 |a Body Composition -- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Cardiorespiratory Endurance -- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Musculoskeletal Fitness -- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Flexibility -- Fitness Measures for a National Youth Survey -- Fitness Measures for Schools and Other Educational Settings -- Future Needs -- Appendix A: Agenda -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Appendix C: Acronyms -- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members 
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653 |a Physical Fitness / physiology 
653 |a Outcome Assessment, Health Care 
653 |a Obesity / prevention & control 
653 |a Exercise Test / standards 
653 |a Adolescent 
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700 1 |a Pillsbury, Laura 
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520 |a "Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an emphasis on health-related fitness. Using appropriately selected measures to collected fitness data in youth will advance our understanding of how fitness among youth translates into better health. In Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth, the IOM assesses the relationship between youth fitness test items and health outcomes, recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for needed research. The report concludes that selected cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and body composition measures should be in fitness surveys and in schools. Collecting fitness data nationally and in schools helps with setting and achieving fitness goals and priorities for public health at an individual and national level" Publisher's Summary