The S.P.A.C.E Hypothesis: Physical Activity as Medium - Not Medicine - for Public Health Impact

Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2021 Apr 1;49(2):133-145. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000248.

Abstract

Most scientifically tested physical activity interventions end when research funding ends; interventions that last struggle to sustain benefits. We hypothesize that long-term public health impact will benefit from a shift in how interventionists conceptualize physical activity - from a form of medicine, of value for its innate health benefits, to a malleable medium, of value for the dynamic contexts it creates.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Exercise*
  • Humans
  • Public Health*