Please note: This website has recently moved from www.health.gov to odphp.health.gov. www.health.gov is now the official website of ODPHP’s parent organization, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH). Please update your bookmarks for easy access to all our resources. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Physical Activity: Enhanced School-Based Physical Education

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: December 2013

Workgroups: Educational and Community-Based Programs Workgroup, Physical Activity Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends enhanced school-based physical education (PE) to increase physical activity. Enhanced school-based PE involves increasing the amount of time students spend getting moderate- or vigorous-intensity physical activity during PE classes. CPSTF found that enhanced school-based PE is an effective way to achieve these increases. 

Read more about this resource

Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of adolescents who participate in daily school physical education — ECBP‑01
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2013). Physical Activity: Enhanced School-Based Physical Education. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/physical-activity-enhanced-school-based-physical-education