It is noted that efforts to evaluate the NPAP are needed. The NPAP Board of Directors identified evaluation of the plan as an essential component. As a result of these efforts a list of products created to evaluation the implementation and progress of the plan.
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include evaluation as an essential element of a national physical activity plan. Therefore, since the NPAP’s inception, there has been a commitment to evaluating progress towards the NPAP’s overarching goal: to impact physical activity through practices, promotions, programs, policies, and projects at the national, state, and local levels.
A formal effort to evaluate the early awareness, adoption, and implementation of the NPAP was undertaken in early 2011 in collaboration with the Physical Activity Policy Research Network (PAPRN). Members of the PAPRN subsequently produced a number of evaluation products as follows:
Peer-reviewed Publications
Reports, Briefs, and Resources
Book Chapter
Evaluation Products
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Peer-reviewed Publications
Evenson KR, Brownson RC, Satinsky SB, Eyler AA, and Kohl III HW. Initial dissemination and use of the United States National Physical Activity Plan by public health practitioners. Am J Prev Med. 2013; in press.
Bornstein D, Carnoske C, Tabak R, Maddock J, Hooker SP, and Evenson KR. Factors related to partner involvement in development of the US National Physical Activity Plan. J Public Health Management Practice. 2013; in press.
Kohl III HW, Satinsky SB, Whitfield GP, and Evenson KR. All health is local: state and local articulation of the US National Physical Activity Plan. J Public Health
Management Practice. 2013; in press.
Evenson KR and Satinsky SB. Sector activities and lessons learned around initial implementation of the United States National Physical Activity Plan. Under review.
Evenson KR, Satinsky SB, Carnoske C, Gustat J, Healy I, Litt J, Hooker SP, Reed H, and O’Hara Tompkins N. Perspectives from state public health practitioners on the United States National Physical Activity Plan. Under review.
Reports
Evenson KR and Satinsky SB. 2011 Evaluation Report on Sector Activities for the United States National Physical Activity Plan. April 2012.
Practice Briefs and Resources
Summary of Initial Results: NSPAPPH survey. December 2011.
Survey on Initial Evaluation of the National Physical Activity Plan. 2011.
Business and Industry Sector: 2011 Accomplishments. April 2012.
Education Sector: 2011 Accomplishments. April 2012.
Health Care Sector: 2011 Accomplishments. April 2012.
Public Health Sector: 2011 Accomplishments. April 2012.
Transportation, Land Use, and Community Design Sector: 2011 Accomplishments. April 2012.
Perspectives from State Public Health Practitioners on the United States National Physical Activity Plan. December 2012.
