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National Institutes on Aging (NIA), Go4Life

https://go4life.nia.nih.gov/

Go4Life is an exercise and physical activity campaign designed to help older Americans fit exercise and

physical activity into daily life. Go4Life offers exercises, motivational tips, and free resources to help older

Americans get ready, start exercising, and keep going. The Go4Life campaign includes an evidence-based

exercise guide in both English and Spanish, an exercise video, an interactive website, and a national

outreach campaign.

National Park Service (NPS)

Healthy Parks Healthy People Program

https://www.nps.gov/public_health/hp/hphp/about.htm

The National Park Service’s Healthy Parks Healthy People program connects people to parks through

health promotion, fosters society’s understanding and appreciation for the life-sustaining role of parks,

and creates the next generation of park stewards. The program addresses health promotion in parks

and communities, at local, state, national and international levels through five main programmatic

areas, including healthy recreation.

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH)

Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), Think, Act, and Grow (TAG)

https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/tag/index.html

TAG is a national call to action to improve adolescent health in the United States. This website provides

information about how professionals, parents, and adolescents can take action as well as resources and

success stories to engage and empower teens and young people to be physically active and improve their

overall health.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)

https://health.gov/paguidelines/

The ODPHP website includes information on the science base used to develop the Physical Activity

Guidelines for Americans, as well as the Move Your Way campaign resources for health professionals

and consumers. This website also offers an online tool to help consumers determine what physical

activities they can fit into their daily life and make a plan to help them meet the Guidelines.

https://healthypeople.gov

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

It has a physical activity topic area, which includes objectives used to track the progress of populations meeting

the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans as well as other physical activity areas.

116 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

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