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Business and Industry

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Community Recreation, Fitness, and Parks

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Education

  1. SHAPE America. The Essential Components of Physical Education, 2015. Available at http://www.shapeamerica.org/upload/TheEssentialComponentsOfPhysicalEducation.pdf.  Accessed March 22, 2016.
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP), 2013. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools /physicalactivity/cspap.htm. Accessed March 22, 2016.
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Faith-Based Settings

  1. Pew Research Center. America’s Changing Religious Landscape 2015. Available: http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/05/RLS-08-26-full-report.pdf. Accessed February 25, 2016.
  2. Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Fast Facts about American Religion. Available at http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html. Accessed March 18, 2016.
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  7. Newlin K, Dyess SM, Allard E, et al. A methodological review of faith-based health promotion literature: advancing the science to expand delivery of diabetes education to Black Americans. J Relig Health 2012;51(4):1075-1097.
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Healthcare

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Mass Media

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  5. Guide to Community Preventive Services. Behavioral and social approaches to increase physical activity: individually-adapted health behavior change programs. www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/ behavioral-social/individuallyadapted.html. Last updated: 02/2001.

Public Health

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Sport

  1. The Physical Activity Council. 2016 Participation Report. Available at http://physicalactivitycouncil.com/PDFs/current.pdf. Accessed on March 22, 2016.
  2. NPR, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Sports and Health in America, 2015. Available at http://media.npr.org/documents/2015/june/ sportsandhealthpoll.pdf. Accessed on March 22, 2016.
  3. Aspen Institute Project Play. Sport for All, Play for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game, 2015. Available at http://aspenprojectplay.org/sites/default/files/PhysicalLiteracy _AspenInstitute.pdf.  Accessed on March 22, 2016.
  4. Slack, Trevor, and Milena M. Parent. Understanding sport organizations: The application of organization theory. Human Kinetics, 2006.

Transportation, Land Use, and Community Design

  1. TransitCenter, “Who’s On Board: 2014 Mobility Attitudes Survey,” September 2014.
  2. National Complete Streets Coalition Policy Atlas, http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/complete-streets/changing-policy/complete-streets-atlas, accessed October 2, 2014.
  3. Transportation for America, “Dangerous by Design 2014,” May 2014.
  4. USPIRG, “A New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications for America’s Future,” May 14, 2013.
  5. Litman, T. (2011). Short and sweet: Analysis of shorter trips using national personal travel survey data. Victoria Transport Policy Institute. Available at http://www.vtpi.org/short_sweet.pdf. Accessed on September 25, 2011.
  6. Federal Highway Administration. (2009). National Household Travel Survey – 2009. Available at http://nhts.ornl.gov/download.shtml. Accessed on October 2, 2011.
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