SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan
SLOfit Lifelong is a public health initiative which was created to upgrade a well-established, national physical fitness surveillance system for Slovenian schoolchildren that has been collecting annual fitness and health data for over three decades. The ultimate objective of creating SLOfit Lifelong...
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| author | Gregor Jurak Shawnda A. Morrison Maroje Soric Maroje Soric Bojan Leskošek Marjeta Kovač Tjaša Ocvirk Vedrana Sember Jaka Kramaršič Kaja Meh Žan Luca Potočnik Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Neja Markelj Petra Golja Vojko Strojnik Vedran Hadžić Gregor Starc |
| author_facet | Gregor Jurak Shawnda A. Morrison Maroje Soric Maroje Soric Bojan Leskošek Marjeta Kovač Tjaša Ocvirk Vedrana Sember Jaka Kramaršič Kaja Meh Žan Luca Potočnik Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Neja Markelj Petra Golja Vojko Strojnik Vedran Hadžić Gregor Starc |
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| description | SLOfit Lifelong is a public health initiative which was created to upgrade a well-established, national physical fitness surveillance system for Slovenian schoolchildren that has been collecting annual fitness and health data for over three decades. The ultimate objective of creating SLOfit Lifelong was to build a modern societal infrastructure with the capacity and ability to detect future causal associations between childhood physical fitness trends and future health outcomes based on the lifelong surveillance of one's own fitness status. By instilling citizens with an ambition to test, understand, and follow-up their own physical fitness and health status (including related health risk factors), this initiative provides the technical support and expert feedback needed to engender greater individual control over understanding (and thus modulating), one's own physical fitness status as they progress into older adulthood. This perspective paper details the extensive approach taken to devise appropriate fitness test batteries for adults and older adults which can also relate to the student version of the original SLOfit test database, including establishing criterion health risk zones and a public approach to establish this national, citizen-driven health feedback framework. Through its sophisticated online web applications, social media, print media, and outreach workshops, SLOfit Lifelong provides the expert support for public health engagement by fostering positive lifelong physical literacy experiences an individual can enjoy across their aging journey. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acbefd53f5d04c1cac008ffe9947faaa2022-12-22T03:46:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-09-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.10022391002239SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespanGregor Jurak0Shawnda A. Morrison1Maroje Soric2Maroje Soric3Bojan Leskošek4Marjeta Kovač5Tjaša Ocvirk6Vedrana Sember7Jaka Kramaršič8Kaja Meh9Žan Luca Potočnik10Rok Blagus11Rok Blagus12Rok Blagus13Neja Markelj14Petra Golja15Vojko Strojnik16Vedran Hadžić17Gregor Starc18Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaInstitute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Koper, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaBiotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SloveniaSLOfit Lifelong is a public health initiative which was created to upgrade a well-established, national physical fitness surveillance system for Slovenian schoolchildren that has been collecting annual fitness and health data for over three decades. The ultimate objective of creating SLOfit Lifelong was to build a modern societal infrastructure with the capacity and ability to detect future causal associations between childhood physical fitness trends and future health outcomes based on the lifelong surveillance of one's own fitness status. By instilling citizens with an ambition to test, understand, and follow-up their own physical fitness and health status (including related health risk factors), this initiative provides the technical support and expert feedback needed to engender greater individual control over understanding (and thus modulating), one's own physical fitness status as they progress into older adulthood. This perspective paper details the extensive approach taken to devise appropriate fitness test batteries for adults and older adults which can also relate to the student version of the original SLOfit test database, including establishing criterion health risk zones and a public approach to establish this national, citizen-driven health feedback framework. Through its sophisticated online web applications, social media, print media, and outreach workshops, SLOfit Lifelong provides the expert support for public health engagement by fostering positive lifelong physical literacy experiences an individual can enjoy across their aging journey.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1002239/fullagingexercise monitoringparticipatory researchpolicy makingpopulation healthsurveillance |
| spellingShingle | Gregor Jurak Shawnda A. Morrison Maroje Soric Maroje Soric Bojan Leskošek Marjeta Kovač Tjaša Ocvirk Vedrana Sember Jaka Kramaršič Kaja Meh Žan Luca Potočnik Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Rok Blagus Neja Markelj Petra Golja Vojko Strojnik Vedran Hadžić Gregor Starc SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan Frontiers in Public Health aging exercise monitoring participatory research policy making population health surveillance |
| title | SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| title_full | SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| title_fullStr | SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| title_full_unstemmed | SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| title_short | SLOfit Lifelong: A model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| title_sort | slofit lifelong a model for leveraging citizen science to promote and maintain physical fitness and physical literacy across the lifespan |
| topic | aging exercise monitoring participatory research policy making population health surveillance |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1002239/full |
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