Leeds Let’s Get Active (LLGA) provides the Leeds population with an opportunity to address health inequalities through increasing participation rates in sport and physical activity amongst the least active people in Leeds. LLGA allows Leeds to showcase best practice nationally as well as regionally and contributes significantly to Leeds becoming the most active big city in England. The NHS (2012) state that physical inactivity is a significant health risk as it is found to be outweighed by smoking, causing many more deaths per year. Researchers calculated that if activity levels were increased so that no-one was classed as inactive, then this could reduce early deaths by more than 7%.
Whilst the free access (leisure centres and community) within the LLGA offer is universal and open to all Leeds residents, the …show more content…
The Bodyline Access Scheme will target those who are identified through a health care professional intervention who could benefit from ‘being more active’. This could include, for example, those at risk of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) or diabetes, those with low mood, those who are overweight or those who are engaged in changing another aspect of their current lifestyle e.g. stopping smoking, reducing alcohol consumption. This audience will be inactive and doing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week and they will not have pre-existing medical or long term conditions.
Members will be aware of the significant health and life expectancy inequalities which exist between the different areas of Leeds. This pilot project has the aim of reducing these inequalities by increasing participation in physical activity, targeted at those who are presently inactive and doing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week, and whilst providing a universal free offer, the offer is greatest in those areas with the highest
Whilst the free access (leisure centres and community) within the LLGA offer is universal and open to all Leeds residents, the …show more content…
The Bodyline Access Scheme will target those who are identified through a health care professional intervention who could benefit from ‘being more active’. This could include, for example, those at risk of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) or diabetes, those with low mood, those who are overweight or those who are engaged in changing another aspect of their current lifestyle e.g. stopping smoking, reducing alcohol consumption. This audience will be inactive and doing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week and they will not have pre-existing medical or long term conditions.
Members will be aware of the significant health and life expectancy inequalities which exist between the different areas of Leeds. This pilot project has the aim of reducing these inequalities by increasing participation in physical activity, targeted at those who are presently inactive and doing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week, and whilst providing a universal free offer, the offer is greatest in those areas with the highest