Table 2.
Setting- and target group-specific policies.
| Review | Title | Main topic | Type of review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children (school-based) | |||
| Basch, C. (2011) | Healthier students are better learners (Journal of School Health) | Identifying health problems in schoolchildren that lead to low academic performance | Narrative review |
| Basch, C. (2010) | Healthier students are better learners (Research Review) | Identifying health problems in schoolchildren that lead to low academic performance | Narrative review |
| Bassett, D.R. et al. (2013) | Estimated energy expenditures for school-based policies and active living | Assessment of the increase in energy expenditure in children caused by certain environmental/policy interventions in schools | Systematic review |
| Hatfield, D. P. & Chomitz, V. R. (2015) | Increasing Children's Physical Activity During the School Day | Identifying evidence-based approaches for increasing children's PA throughout the school-day and the multilevel factors that support implementation | Narrative review |
| Kristensen A. et al. (2014a) | Reducing childhood obesity through US federal policy | Estimate the impact of three federal policies by using microsimulation; modeling calculates effects if programs were offered to all youths for one year | Narrative review |
| Langford R. et al. (2014) | The WHO health promoting school framework | Assessing the effectiveness of the WHO Health Promoting Schools framework in improving health and academic achievement of students | Systematic review |
| Metos J & Murtaugh M (2011) | Words or reality: Are school district wellness policies implemented? | Assessing whether school wellness policies are written and implemented as a result of the 2004 US Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act CNRA | Systematic review |
| Robertson-Wilson JE et al. (2012) | Physical activity politics and legislation in schools | Reviewing state and federal level policy in the US that attempted to promote PA in schools and determining their impact | Systematic review |
| Williams A et al. (2013) | Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between childhood overweight and obesity and primary school diet and physical activity policies | Assessing the effect of diet/PA policies on children's weight status | Systematic review |
| Yeh M (2010) | Effectiveness of school-based policies to reduce childhood obesity | Identifying school-based interventions, environmental interventions, school policies, and public policies to reduce childhood obesity | Narrative review |
| Children (non school-based) | |||
| Brennan, L. K. et al. (2014) | Childhood obesity policy research and practice | Systematically assessing the effectiveness of different policies and environmental strategies to reduce childhood obesity | Narrative review |
| Pate R. et al. (2011) | Policies to increase physical activity in children and youth | Identifying common international policies to increase PA in children/adolescents, and examining if they are supported by scientific evidence | Systematic review |
| Akinroye, K. K. et al. (2014) | Results from Nigeria’s 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth | Summarizing available evidence on the status of PA in children and adolescents in Nigeria | Narrative review |
| Sember, V. et al. (2016) | Results From the Republic of Slovenia’s 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth | Summarizing Slovenia's efforts to report PA/PA standards for children and youths | Unsystematic review |
| Wolfenden, L. et al. (2016) | Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare services | Examining the effectiveness of strategies to improve the implementation of policies, practices and programs by childcare services to promote health eating, PA and/or obesity prevention | Systematic review |
| Trost, S. et al. (2010) | Effects of child care policy and environment on physical activity | Evaluating the influence of child care policy and environments on PA in pre-school children | Unsystematic review |
| Other settings and target groups | |||
| Kumanyika S. et al. (2014a) | Examining the evidence for policy and environmental strategies to prevent childhood obesity in black communities | Assessing whether an existing review system for policy and environmental strategies to prevent childhood obesity also works for black Americans | Unsystematic review |
| Lin Y et al. (2015) | An integrative review: Work environment factors associated with physical activity among white-collar workers | Sythesizing evidence for the role of the work environment (incl. workplace PA policies) in explaining PA levels | Unsystematic review |
| Nawaz H. & Katz D. (2001) | American College of Preventive Medicine practice policy statement: weight management counselling of overweight adults | Providing policy guidance on weight loss counseling for adults by health professionals | Narrative review |
| Patrick K et al. (2009) | The healthcare sector's role in the US national physical activity plan | Identifying opportunities to promote PA in healthcare settings for the “upcoming” US National PA plan | Narrative review |
| Umstattd Meyer, M. R. et al. (2016) | Physical Activity-Related Policy and Environmental Strategies to Prevent Obesity in Rural Communities: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2002–2013 | Synthesizing evidence on the implementation, relevance and effectiveness of PA-related policy and environmental strategies for obesity prevention in rural communities | Systematic review |
| Vuori I et al. (2013) | Physical activity promotion in the health care system | Informing healthcare practitioners what can be done in the healthcare setting to promote PA | Narrative review |
| Weed M et al. (2012) | Developing a physical activity legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games | Examining potential processes by which the London 2012 Olympics might deliver a PA-related “legacy” | Systematic review |