2016 ParticipACTION Report Card
Canadian kids are inactive and may be losing sleep over it
ParticipACTION releases 2016 Report Card and for the first time, assigns a sleep grade.
There are important relationships among sleep, physical activity and sedentary behaviour and new research shows that sedentary lifestyles are connected to a creeping ‘sleepidemic’ in Canadian children and youth. That is why, for the first time, the 2016 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth assigns a grade to sleep and includes new Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth. A first of their kind in the world, the guidelines outline what a healthy 24-hour period looks like for children and youth.
Telemental Health: An Approach to Addressing Mental Health Care Disparities for Children and Adolescents
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Special Issue on Telemental Health: An Approach to Addressing Mental Health Care Disparities for Children and Adolescents. Kathleen Myers, MD, MPH, MS, and Jonathan S. Comer, PhD, Guest Editors
Complete special issue: http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/cap/26/3
Introduction: The Case for Telemental Health for Improving the Accessibility and Quality of Children’s Mental Health Services
Obese Children Do Not Need to Increase Their Physical Activity Any More than Their Lean Counterparts Do
Traversy Gregory Peter, Chaput Jean-Philippe. Obese Children Do Not Need to Increase Their Physical Activity Any More than Their Lean Counterparts Do. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2016: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2016.00035. Via the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, CHEO Research Institute IntroductionThe relationship between child physical activity (PA) levels and obesity has been studied extensively (1, 2). […]
New UNICEF report: Canadian children at back of the pack among rich nations
Well-being of most vulnerable children at risk if widening gaps are not addressed
TORONTO, April 14, 2016 – A new report released today by UNICEF highlights the inequalities in child well-being in the world’s most affluent nations, including Canada. While progress in reducing child wellbeing gaps has been modest overall, Canada’s children are at the back of the pack, ranking in the bottom third when measured against other rich nations.
Reaching For the Top: A report by the advisor on healthy children and youth
A recommendation from this 2007 report by Dr. K. Kellie Leitch MP, MD, MBA, FRCS(C) led to the genesis of The Sandbox Project. “Canada is among the most prosperous nations in the world. We boast a universally accessible health care system, and a large number of generous social programs, many of which were conceived to […]
