The National Public Health Survey, entitled “Health on equal terms (HLV)”, is led by the Public Health Agency of Sweden and collects data annually (2). Physical activity measures include duration, intensity, domains (leisure time, transport, work, household), sedentary behaviour in different age groups, and socioeconomic items.
Sweden’s national recommendations on physical activity (3), targeting adults and older adults, are in line with WHO’s Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health (2010) (4), providing examples of how to achieve the recommend amounts of physical activity.
National data on prevalence of physical activity for adults use a cut-off point of at least 3 hours of moderate intensity physical activity per week, or regular exercise. Data from the 2014 HLV survey demonstrate an almost even distribution of recommended physical activity levels among both sexes (67% for males; 65% for females) in adults (aged 16—84 years) (5) (see Table 1)....
Being healthy can have a direct effect on happiness.
By Katia Hetter
Norwegians (click here) have more reason than ever to celebrate the International Day of Happiness.
After ranking fourth for the last two years, Norway jumped three spots and displaced three-time winner Denmark to take the title of "world's happiest country" for the first time.
Denmark dropped to second place this year, followed by Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and Sweden (which tied for ninth place), according to the latest World Happiness Report, released in March 2017 by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations.
Denmark has won the title three of the four times the report has been issued, while Switzerland has won the title just once.
The United States came in 14th place, dropping one place from last year.
Other superpowers didn't fare better than Northern Europe either....
