County Health Rankings And Roadmaps

County Health Rankings And Roadmaps.
More than three-quarters of Americans contemporary seal to at least one park or recreational facility, giving many people opportunity to exercise, a new workroom finds. But access to exercise sites varies regionally, the nationwide study found. "Not Dick had equal access to opportunities for exercise," said study researcher Anne Roubal, a reckon assistant at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison. "Southern regions did much worse than the trestle of the country. In the Northeast, most counties have very high access".

Access to application opportunity is considered crucial for Americans to get regular physical activity, and in the process lower their hazard for premature death and chronic health conditions, the researchers said. "If we provide multitude more access to those locations, it is going to increase the chances they will be active". Currently, less than half of US adults tourney recommendations for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity: 150 minutes or more weekly of moderate exercise, or 75 minutes a week of vivacious exercise or a combination of the two, the study noted.

Roubal's yoke defined access to exercise opportunity as living close to a park, gym, recreational center, skating rink or pool. If subjects lived a half-mile from a park or one mile from a recreational aptitude in urban areas, or three miles in rural areas, they were considered to have access to performance opportunities. Data on bike trails was not available. For the study, published in the January children of Preventing Chronic Disease, the investigators calculated the percentage of residents with access to exercise opportunities in nearly all US counties.