Appraisal of the national policy on physical activity in Japan and international comparison

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560359
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Chukyo University
• Principal Investigator: OIDA Yukio 中京大学, 工学部, 教授 (30185178)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): INOUE Shigeru 東京医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (00349466) ; TAKEDA Noriko 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学院, 特別研究員 (70386655)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 身体活動 / 政策監査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to appraise the national policies for physical activity promotion and their implementation status in Japan. Appraisal of the policy was performed by Policy Audit Tool (PAT) for health-enhancing physical activity.
The results revealed legislation related to physical activity had been established as well as national policies in the health sector and the sports sector. Furthermore, both ministries have set recommended physical activity levels and national goals, and devised an action plan to achieve them. However, there were no policies or action plans specific to physical activity promotion in the transport sector or urban design sector. A limitation of earlier work was the lack of adequate data from sectors on the implementation of policies at the sub national levels. This is because implementation is the responsibility of local municipalities and national authorities are not well informed on current status of activities.

Free Research Field

運動疫学