1. Global Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity: the Hamburg Declaration
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Christian Gerloff, Sebastien Racinais, Mats Borjesson, Erich Müller, Hashel Al Tunaiji, Andrea Ermolao, Lars Engebretsen, Wilhelm Bloch, Richard Budgett, David Hughes, Dina Christina Janse van Rensburg, Hans Hauner, Susi Kriemler, Boris Gojanovic, Martin Scherer, Martine Duclos, Claus Reinsberger, Uğur Erdener, Mark Fulcher, Willem van Mechelen, Benedict Tan, Romain Seil, Luigi Di Luigi, Bernd Wolfarth, Jeroen Swart, Victoriya Badtieva, Theodora Papadopoulou, Maurizio Casasco, Norbert Bachl, Fabio Pigozzi, Jürgen M Steinacker, Anca Ionescu, Mike Miller, Yannis P Pitsiladis, Martin Halle, Robert Sallis, Natasha Jones, Luis B Sardinha, Matthew Payton Herring, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Svitlana Drozdovska, Demitri Constantinou, Sandra Rozenštoka, Bülent Ülkar, Naama Constantini, Yiannis Koutedakis, Cheri A Blauwet, Daniel Neunhäuserer, Jasper Schipperijn, German Clénin, Janine Wendt, Anna Jegier, Sheng Zeng, Chiara Fossati, Roberto Vettor, Jane Thornton, Elin Kolle, Hans-Georg Predel, Winfried März, Dietrich Andresen, Pedro Manonelles Marqueta, Christian Kuhn, Eleanor Tillet, Melita Moore, Carolin Knoke, Olena Andrieieva, Friedhelm J Beucher, Jose-Antonio Casajus Mallen, Ju-Ho Chang, Lukas Declercq, Stephane Doutreleau, Thomas Fischbach, Anastasia N Fischer, Jeorge Franchella, Jan C Galle, Evelina Georgiades, Marcela González Gross, Andy Grote, Mikio Hiura, Kerstin Holze, Gerhard Huber, Mark R. Hutchinson, Kirsten Kappert-Gonther, Monika Kellerer, Yutaka Kimura, Agrita Kiopa, Bernd Kladny, Gerhard Koch, Greg Kolt, Stephan Kress, Jens Kröger, Roman Laszlo, Ralph Lehnert, François J Lhuissier, Kerstin Lüdtke, Shigeru Makita, Kirill Micallef-Stafrace, I. Renay Onur, Vahur Ööpik, Malgorzata Perl, Anastassios Philippou, Algirdas Raslanas, Ruediger Reer, Klaus Reinhardt, Nils Schumacher, Bernhard Schwaab, Ansgar Schwirtz, Masato Suzuki, Ralph Tiesler, Ulf Tippelt, Eve Unt, and Thomas Weikert
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Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, dementia, depression and cancers, are on the rise worldwide and are often associated with a lack of physical activity (PA). Globally, the levels of PA among individuals are below WHO recommendations. A lack of PA can increase morbidity and mortality, worsen the quality of life and increase the economic burden on individuals and society. In response to this trend, numerous organisations came together under one umbrella in Hamburg, Germany, in April 2021 and signed the ‘Hamburg Declaration’. This represented an international commitment to take all necessary actions to increase PA and improve the health of individuals to entire communities. Individuals and organisations are working together as the ‘Global Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity’ to drive long-term individual and population-wide behaviour change by collaborating with all stakeholders in the community: active hospitals, physical activity specialists, community services and healthcare providers, all achieving sustainable health goals for their patients/clients. The ‘Hamburg Declaration’ calls on national and international policymakers to take concrete action to promote daily PA and exercise at a population level and in healthcare settings.
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- 2023
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