The World Health Organisation has released a policy brief describing the importance of integrating physical activity into primary and secondary schools
so that all children and young people can be physically active on a
regular basis, which will contribute to preventing the increasing public
health problem of childhood obesity.
This policy brief supports school
policy-makers, planners, and potentially school principals and describes
how the school environment can be used to develop, implement and
evaluate whole-of-school strategies that promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among children and young people.