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World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

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  • Fiona C Bull Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandSchool of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Salih S Al-Ansari Health Promotion Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stuart Biddle Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Katja Borodulin Age Institute, Helsinki, FinlandPublic Health Evaluation and Projection Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matthew P Buman College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Greet Cardon Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catherine Carty Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Co Kerry, IrelandUNESCO Chair of Transforming the Lives of People with Disabilities, their Families and Communities, Through Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Fitness PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jean-Philippe Chaput Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sebastien Chastin School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Roger Chou Departments of Medicine, and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paddy C Dempsey MRC Epidemiology Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UKBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Loretta DiPietro Department of Exercise and Nutrition Science, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ulf Ekelund Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Science, Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Chronic Diseases and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joseph Firth NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, AustraliaDivision of Psychology and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christine M Friedenreich Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, CancerControl Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leandro Garcia Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Muthoni Gichu Department of Non-Commuicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Russell Jago Centre for Exercise, Nutrition & Health Science, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter T Katzmarzyk Population and Public Health Sciences, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Estelle Lambert Research Centre for Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport, Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Leitzmann Department ofEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karen Milton Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francisco B Ortega PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through physical activity) research group, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Research Institute of Sport and Health, University of Granada, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chathuranga Ranasinghe Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit and Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Emmanuel Stamatakis Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anne Tiedemann Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Richard P Troiano Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hidde P van der Ploeg Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPrevention Research Collaboration, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vicky Wari National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Juana F Willumsen Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Fiona C Bull, Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, GE, Switzerland; bullf{at}who.int
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Bull FC, Al-Ansari SS, Biddle S, et al
World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

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  • Accepted September 7, 2020
  • First published November 25, 2020.
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November 25, 2020

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