Physical activity in low- and middle-income countries

Foreword / Pedro C. Hallal -- Moving forward, moving more : putting low and middle-income countries firmly on the global physical activity agenda / Katja Siefken, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Temo Waqanivalu, Nico Schulenkorf -- Global physical activity : international perspectives with emphasis on low and middle-income countries / Andrea Ramirez Varela, Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Pedro Hallal, Catalina del Portillo, Željko Pedišić, Harold Kohl, and Mike Pratt -- Physical activity : challenges and opportunities in low and middle income countries / Inácio Crochemore-Silva, Alan G. Knuth, Grégore I. Mielke, Andrea Wendt, and José Cazuza de Farias Júnior -- Physical activity policy actions : what is the role of governments? / Bill Bellew, Tracy Nau, Benjamin Smith, Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Željko Pedišić, and Adrian Bauman -- Active societies : the global action plan on physical activity in low and middle income countries / Nicolas Aguilar-Farias and Sebastian Miranda-Marquez -- Physical activity surveillance in the context of low and middle income countries / Željko Pedišić, Cora L. Craig, and Adrian E. Bauman -- Foreign aid, the soft power of sport, and the sustainable development goals : an analysis of Australia's sport for development in the Pacific program / Thomas Wanner -- Progress and opportunities for advancing physical activity behavior change in LMICs / Lilian Perez, Elva Arredondo, Ding Ding, and Gregory W. Heath -- Case study from Latin America : understanding the relationship between the built environment and physical activity in Latin American contexts / Eugen Resendiz, Alejandra Jáuregui, and Deborah Salvo -- Case study from Africa : physical activity and safety from crime and traffic / Adewale L. Oyeyemi, Tracy L. Kolbe-Alexander, and Estelle V. Lambert -- Case study from the South Pacific : women's sport participation in Fiji : through a lens of structural inequality / Yoko Kanemasu, James Johnson, and Atele Dutt -- Case study from Central America : challenges and opportunities for physically active lifestyles in girls and young women in Costa Rica and countries in Central America / Inés M. Revuelta-Sánchez and Gerardo A. Araya-Vargas -- Case study from Asia : push for pedal power : urban mobility and rise of bicycling in Indian cities / Deepti Adlakha, Felix John -- Case study from Asia : active transportation: the missing part of the puzzle for physical activity promotion in India / Shifalika Goenka and Raji Devarajan -- Case study from Eastern Europe : physical activity in the Czech Republic a society in transformation / Josef Mitáš and Karel Frömel -- Moving the agenda forward : reflections and future outlook on physical activity in low and middle income countries / Nico Schulenkorf, Temo Waqanivalu, Andrea Ramirez, and Katja Siefken.