Table 2.

Physical activity referral rates by referring health practitioners

	Prescriptions n (%)		Professional-PARs rate (%)
	2004	2005	2004	2005
Physician	1238 (38.1)	904 (31.5)	0.6	0.5
Nurse	1022 (31.4)	814 (28.4)	0.9	0.7
Physiotherapist	504 (15.5)	610 (21.3)	14.6	22.1
Occupational therapist	53 (1.6)	31 (1.1)	0.6	0.7
Dietician	129 (4.0)	168 (5.9)	3.9	4.6
Behavioural scientist	62 (1.9)	36 (1.3)	10.5	15.6
Other	245 (7.5)	303 (10.5)	1.3	1.3
Total	3253 (100)	2866 (100)	-	-

Note: The profession- PAR- rate is a ratio expressing the number of PARs issued by different professional categories in one year divided by the number of unique individuals that visit each category group each year.