The Global Pandemic of Sedentariness: An Update of Multidisciplinary Knowledge
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Assessments".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2795
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human postural control in the standing position (coordination, mechanisms, stability/instability, oscillations); synergies between vision, posture and attention to perform visual tasks in the standing position; Parkinson’s disease related impairments in vision, posture and attention to perform visual tasks in the standing position; prolonged sedentariness as a non-communicable disease; Pros and cons for sitting vs. Standing for both health and task performance
Interests: development of sensory-motor integration; use of sensory information in postural control; programs of physical activity promoting development in children; integration of sensory cues into motor activity in dyslexic children; eye movements and reading in dyslexic children; Parkinson’s disease and the use of sensory cues
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-communicable diseases associated with the lack of physical activity of the population worldwide have been thoroughly documented over the last few decades. Various series of manuscripts (e.g. in The Lancet 2012 and 2016) have generated guidelines to reduce physical inactivity and to encourage a more active lifestyle for disease prevention. As far as we know, this type of series is lacking for sedentariness. Given the large increase in publications on sedentariness in the last 10 years, the latter entity deserves more attention. Today, too many people spend too much time seated, and there is an urgent need to bring together researchers and clinicians to discuss and to propose actions towards changing this trend and related consequences on health. Furthermore, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accentuated the threat posed by this dangerous, non-communicable disease and, unfortunately, will most likely continue to do so.
This Special Issue of the Healthcare journal will discuss and update the following multidisciplinary aspects related to sedentariness:
- Objective time spent in sedentariness today vs. in history;
- Objective threshold for the harmful effects of standing;
- Prevalence and costs of non-communicable diseases caused by prolonged sedentariness in the world;
- Objective increase in prevalence of sedentariness since COVID-19;
- Additional non-communicable diseases caused by sedentariness since COVID-19;
- Devices for measuring sedentariness and interest in the population;
- Manners to reduce sedentariness;
- Objective thresholds of sedentariness with respect to age and gender;
- Objective thresholds of sedentariness for the harmful effects of sedentariness with respect to TV watching;
- Objective thresholds of sedentariness between inactive and active people;
- Objective thresholds of sedentariness between countries;
- Objective thresholds of sedentariness at work and with respect to salary.
Dr. Cédrick T. Bonnet
Dr. Jose Barela
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prolonged sedentariness
- non-communicable disease
- associated costs
- COVID-19 and related changes
- thresholds for harmful effects
- recommendations to reduce sedentariness
- friendly-user means to measure sedentariness
- toward a more dynamic life
- toward more self-control
