Active Healthy Kids Scotland has published a second ‘state of the nation’ report card on the physical activity and health of Scottish children and adolescents. The report card is an accurate, critical, current, and comprehensive assessment of the physical activity and health of Scottish children and adolescents.
The 2016 Report Card, which should be useful as an advocacy tool, as the basis of public debate, policy discussion and change, and research proposals, was produced with funding from Inspiring Scotland and The Robertson Trust. The Cards were inspired by the Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card, now the ParticipACTION Report Card (http://www.participaction.com/en-ca/thought-leadership/report-card) and the international network of around 40 countries with an Active Healthy Kids Report Card known as the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (www.activehealthykids.org).
The Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card 2016 is available to download in both Short-Form (also available as a powerpoint presentation) and Long-Form. The Short-Form Report Card 2016 highlights the main findings. The Long-Form Report Card 2016 explains how the report grades were derived, which data sources were used to derive the grades, which data sources were considered for the report card but were not used for grading and why, links to all data sources are also provided.
The Long-Form Report Card 2013 provides more detail on the methods used for deriving report card grades.
A brief critique of Scottish surveillance of child and adolescent physical activity and health derived from the 2016 Active Healthy Kids Report Card process can be found here.