Impact of New York City's 4-year multi-component natural experiment to improve elementary school physical education on student cardiorespiratory fitness

• Main Authors: Hannah R. Thompson (Author), Kristine A. Madsen (Author), Caroline Nguyen (Author), Thomas L. McKenzie (Author), Sally Picciotto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background School physical education is an important population-level health intervention for improving youth fitness. This study estimated the impact of New York City's PE Works program - which included providing PE teachers, training for classroom teachers, and administrative/ teache...