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Scottish Government - A More Active Scotland
Scotland's Physical Activity Delivery Plan – A More Active Scotland – outlines the vision of:
A Scotland where more people are more active, more often.
It is about the hormone that comes from the thyroid gland that becomes inactive…the condition we are talking about today [is] a conversion failure of the inactive T4 thyroid hormone to cross over into the active T3 hormone.iPublic Petitions Committee.
Further to this, 57% of people in the most deprived areas of Scotland meet the recommendations for MVPA with 31% having very low activity. When looking at the least deprived areas, 73% of people are meeting the recommendations and only 13% have very low activity1Scottish Government. (2022, November 8).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2017
This programme successfully encouraging a cohort of inactive people to become more active and at the same time helped reduce health inequalities by encouraging more women to participate in physical activity.
In terms of long-term sickness, there are around 1000 fewer people economically inactive for this reason. So it would seem based on the data that economic activity and long-term sickness have both reduced in Stirling and across Scotland since the beginning of the pandemic.
The recommendations are specific to supporting the realisation of the Physical Activity and Health Framework. Part 2 focuses on the long term in relation to policy development.