Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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The United States and other countries have designed programs to measure or improve the health of the population in many different domains, including physical fitness, and at all ages. Key to setting national health agendas and priorities, as well as goals for individuals, is having goals for public health, metrics with which to determine health reliably and accurately in various areas, and an understanding of how close the population or individuals are to the established goals.
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As noted above and described in detail later in this report, fitness surveys have been conducted in the United States at both the national and state levels. Similarly, other countries have developed fitness test batteries and conducted national surveys (see Chapter 2)
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: evaluation stan dards used to interpret physical fitness test scores and provide informa tion about a participant's health status. Cut-point (cutoff score)
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The committee members had extensive expertise in fitness and physical activity and were selected specifically for their knowledge of youth health issues, body composition and maturation, and motor coordination; methodologies for developing fitness measures related to health; physical education, physical activity, and fitness in schools; and national fitness surveys. Many committee members also are familiar with the various fitness test batteries that have been used throughout history and in different countries and that have responded to specific situations and purposes.
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The committee will make use of a systematic review of the literature conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In examining the review, the commit tee will evaluate the relationships between the fitness components and health outcomes (e.g., cardiovascular disease risk factors, musculosk eletal health, diabetes, obesity and others)
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Presenters had extensive experience in the development of fitness test batteries and in the associations of fitness with metabolic risk factors and body composition. Other presenters had experience in implementing and interpreting results of a battery of fitness tests in the field, providing the committee with insight into feasibility considerations and challenges encountered at the time of test implementation.
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Chapter 3 describes in detail the methodology used by the committee to identify test items, including the CDC's systematic review, which was the primary basis for the committee's conclusions and recommendations. Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 present the committee's rationale for recommending test items for the four fitness components, respectively -- body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and flexibility -- highlighting the findings of the scientific literature.
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Chapter 9 describes the importance of fitness in the context of education, details factors to consider when implementing fitness tests in schools and other educational settings, and presents the committee's recommendations for specific fitness tests for educational settings. Finally, Chapter 10 includes the committee's recommendations for future research.
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