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The economic benefits of reducing physical inactivity: an Australian example

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, September 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
The economic benefits of reducing physical inactivity: an Australian example
Published in
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, September 2011
DOI 10.1186/1479-5868-8-99
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Authors

Dominique A Cadilhac, Toby B Cumming, Lauren Sheppard, Dora C Pearce, Rob Carter, Anne Magnus

Abstract

Physical inactivity has major impacts on health and productivity. Our aim was to estimate the health and economic benefits of reducing the prevalence of physical inactivity in the 2008 Australian adult population. The economic benefits were estimated as 'opportunity cost savings', which represent resources utilized in the treatment of preventable disease that are potentially available for re-direction to another purpose from fewer incident cases of disease occurring in communities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 194 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 16%
Researcher 25 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 9%
Student > Bachelor 17 8%
Other 48 24%
Unknown 38 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 20%
Sports and Recreations 36 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 9%
Psychology 13 6%
Social Sciences 12 6%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 52 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 December 2021.
All research outputs
#1,664,434
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#599
of 2,116 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,661
of 141,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#8
of 25 outputs
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