• Rodrigo S Reis, Deborah Salvo, David Ogilvie, Estelle V Lambert, Shifalika Goenka, Ross C Brownson, and Lancet Physical Activity Series 2 Executive Committee.
• Prevention Research Center in St Louis, Brown School, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA; Physical Education Graduate Program, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. Electronic address: reis.rodrigo@wustl.edu.
• Lancet. 2016 Sep 24; 388 (10051): 133713481337-48.

AbstractThe global pandemic of physical inactivity requires a multisectoral, multidisciplinary public-health response. Scaling up interventions that are capable of increasing levels of physical activity in populations across the varying cultural, geographic, social, and economic contexts worldwide is challenging, but feasible. In this paper, we review the factors that could help to achieve this. We use a mixed-methods approach to comprehensively examine these factors, drawing on the best available evidence from both evidence-to-practice and practice-to-evidence methods. Policies to support active living across society are needed, particularly outside the health-care sector, as demonstrated by some of the successful examples of scale up identified in this paper. Researchers, research funders, and practitioners and policymakers in culture, education, health, leisure, planning, and transport, and civil society as a whole, all have a role. We should embrace the challenge of taking action to a higher level, aligning physical activity and health objectives with broader social, environmental, and sustainable development goals.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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