| （1.School of Physical Education and Health Education，Mianyang Normal University，Mianyang 621000，China；2.School of Sports Science，Shanghai University of Sports，Shanghai 200438，China) Abstract: The influence of environment and policy strategies is a hot topic in the public health area in recent years. As a model of research in this area, the “Active Life Research” program recommended by the United States makes a study of boosting the functions of children and their family members in daily physical activities by basing its core contents on children and teenager physical activity insufficiency and obesity – prominent public health issues faced by the United States, and by sticking to environment and policy related strategies. The “Active Life Research” pro-gram is the initial and an important constituent part of the “Active Life” program system; it has provided a reliable criterion for the relationship between children obesity and lack of physical activities, and formed action oriented re-search achievements, which laid a foundation for follow-up researches on such a type of issues.
Key words: sports sociology；active life；physical activity；children obesity；Active Life Research；the United States |
