How can we get people to walk more?

12th May 2010

Forthcoming professorial address by a colleague at Coventry

Thursday 20 May/6.00pm/Humber Lecture Theatre (GEG31), Coventry University, CV1 5FB

David French, Professor of Health Psychology will be talking on the health benefits of walking in this Professorial Lecture on 20 May.

Walking is especially promising as a focus of public health interventions because it is acceptable to those people who are least physically active, and also provides considerable health benefits.

This presentation will describe the programme of research that developed an intervention which is delivered in a face-to-face consultation and aims to increase individual walking in sedentary adults. This intervention has produced average increases of 87 minutes/ week on objectively measured walking, in members of the general public in Birmingham, and has been successfully replicated in London.

The process by which this intervention is currently being adapted and refined for delivery by practice nurses in primary care will be described.

The presentation will conclude by describing ongoing research in Coventry concerning how to optimise group-based walking schemes.

Refreshments will be available from approximately 7pm

For more information or to register your attendance, please contact Miss Suky Sanghera at s.sanghera@coventry.ac.uk or on 024 7679 5294