Increase in Physical Activity Sustained 1 Year After Playground Intervention.

Introduction: Regular physical activity is a vital component of child health, and schools play an important role in the promotion of physical activity among children. This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a playground redesign involving structural and loose play equipment to increase students' physical activity at an intermediate school in Leadville, Colorado.

Methods: Direct observations were conducted during recess before the redesign in May 2014, then again at 6 months and 1 year after the redesign.

Using Population Dose to Evaluate Community-level Health Initiatives.

Unlabelled: Successful community-level health initiatives require implementing an effective portfolio of strategies and understanding their impact on population health. These factors are complicated by the heterogeneity of overlapping multicomponent strategies and availability of population-level data that align with the initiatives. To address these complexities, the population dose methodology was developed for planning and evaluating multicomponent community initiatives.

Dose as a Tool for Planning and Implementing Community-Based Health Strategies.

Unlabelled: A major challenge in community-based health promotion is implementing strategies that could realistically improve health at the population level. Population dose methodology was developed to help understand the combined impact of multiple strategies on population-level health behaviors. This paper describes one potential use of dose: as a tool for working collaboratively with communities to increase impact when planning and implementing community-level initiatives.