Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Physical Activity

Physical activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal-muscle contraction that results in energy expenditure above resting levels, encompassing occupational, domestic, transport, and leisure-time activity as well as structured exercise. It is characterized by frequency, intensity, duration, and type, and its …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 76× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Physical activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal-muscle contraction that results in energy expenditure above resting levels, encompassing occupational, domestic, transport, and leisure-time activity as well as structured exercise. It is characterized by frequency, intensity, duration, and type, and its health-enhancing forms include aerobic, resistance, and flexibility activity. Regular physical activity is a major modifiable determinant of health, improving cardiovascular and metabolic function, body composition, musculoskeletal integrity, sleep, and mental wellbeing, and lowering the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and several other chronic conditions; conversely, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior are established risk factors for disease. Measurement and promotion of activity, and identification of barriers to it, are therefore central to preventive medicine and public health. The peer-reviewed research gathered here in the journal's global-health corpus reflects these themes, including the effects of physical activity on sleep in adolescents and adults, reduced activity patterns in patients with thalassemia, activity and cardiovascular risk screening in people living with HIV, parental perceptions of barriers to activity and healthy eating in children, occupational activity levels in young adults, the hazards of abdominal obesity, quality of life among older adults with non-communicable disease, and culturally tailored lifestyle interventions to reduce cardio-metabolic risk. Together they situate physical activity as a cornerstone of chronic-disease prevention and population health.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Hazards of Abdominal Obesity

Nasim Habibzadeh SeyedehCorresponding author
PhD student in Sport Science, School of Health and Life Sine, Department of Sport Science, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3269

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 76 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Physical Activity, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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