A short explainer of the MOVING physical activity policy database.
Our policy report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, supports the scientific research in our Second Expert Report, Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity: A Global Perspective, and sets out how policymakers can create supportive environments to encourage people to adopt World Cancer Research Fund International’s Cancer Prevention Recommendations. Based on the evidence, integrated, multi-sectoral action is needed globally to achieve healthier diets and sustained physical activity.
Published 2009.
Building momentum: Establishing robust policies to promote physical activity in primary healthcare sets out the emerging evidence for the benefits of promoting physical activity in primary healthcare, and explains why designing and enacting such policies is good for individual health and economies.
A summary of the report is also available.
Published 2023.
Driving action to prevent cancer and other non-communicable diseases is a policy framework for promoting healthy diets, physical activity and breastfeeding, and reducing alcohol consumption. The policy framework can be used to consider policy actions that will help make environments conducive for people and communities to follow our Cancer Prevention Recommendations.
Published in 2018.
The MOVING physical activity policy index brief outlines the status of physical activity policy in 30 European countries. It was developed as part of the CO-CREATE project and can be used by stakeholders to promote ways that make it easy to be physically active.
The aspirational standards accompany the policy brief and outline the structure and scoring options of the MOVING physical activity policy benchmarking tool, which include 23 benchmarks (and associated indicators) across the 6 policy areas of the MOVING framework.
The MOVING physical activity policy index brief is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
The zip file contains the individual country snapshots in English, all the snapshots in one file and the policy brief.
Published May 2023.
This Methods Document sets out the process we took to identify and present national-level, implemented policy actions in physical activity and healthy diets around the world. It sets out the processes for 2 distinct scans of policy actions to populate the NOURISHING and MOVING databases in a consistent way over time. It was first developed in 2019 and updated in 2024.
A summary of the Methods Document is also available as well as the Technical Annex.
Poster presentation on A pilot study benchmarking physical activity policy actions in Europe: lessons learned from the CO-CREATE project at the HEPA conference in August 2022.
Joint statement by World Obesity Federation and World Cancer Research Fund International to the World Health Organization’s Executive Board 142 on Agenda item 4.2 on Physical Activity for Health.
Delivered January 2018.
Analysis of the policy landscape in Wales, looking at what physical activity policies exist, and how well-designed they are, developed as part of the CO-CREATE project in 2023. It supplements our MOVING policy index, which compares the strengths and weaknesses of policy design in 30 European countries.
Analysis of the policy landscape in Sweden, looking at what physical activity policies exist, and how well-designed they are, developed as part of the CO-CREATE project in 2023. It supplements our MOVING policy index, which compares the strengths and weaknesses of policy design in 30 European countries.
Analysis of the policy landscape in Spain, looking at what physical activity policies exist, and how well-designed they are, developed as part of the CO-CREATE project in 2023. It supplements our MOVING policy index, which compares the strengths and weaknesses of policy design in 30 European countries.
Analysis of the policy landscape in Slovenia, looking at what physical activity policies exist, and how well-designed they are, developed as part of the CO-CREATE project in 2023. It supplements our MOVING policy index, which compares the strengths and weaknesses of policy design in 30 European countries.