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| The research area of Physical Activity and Health is the one concerned with understanding the role of physical activity in the prevention and management of chronic disease and injury. Driven by a dramatic increase in local (and worldwide) awareness of the importance of physical activity for human health, work under this theme thus far has focused on the need to assess, and to increase by intervention, habitual levels of physical activity in the paediatric and geriatric populations in Hong Kong. In very recent years there has been growing interest in how physical activity habits are affected by the built environment we live in (ie., the man-made surroundings in our neigbourhood, such as buildings, streets and parks etc). Our research in Hong Kong in this area of physical activity and public health has been designated one of HKU's Strategic Research Themes (to examine factors related to activity and inactivity that may contribute to increasing levels of obesity), and has also received funding by the Hong Kong Health and Health Services Research Committee to examine how the environment can promote activity, especially walking, in the elderly. Collaborative links exist with Community Medicine, Geography (especially GIS specialists), Family Medicine, Nursing Studies, Real Estate and Construction, Social Work and Social Administration, the Centre for Aging, the Division of Paediatric Cardiology (Grantham Hospital ) and the Departments of Paediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as with outside agencies, such as Polar Oy.
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