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Physical activity: walking and cycling

  • Public health guideline
  • Reference number: PH41
  • Published:  28 November 2012
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  • What is this guidance about?
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  • Appendix A Membership of the Programme Development Group (PDG), the NICE project team and external contractors
  • Appendix B Summary of the methods used to develop this guidance
  • Appendix C The evidence
  • Appendix D Gaps in the evidence
  • Appendix E Supporting documents
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Update information

November 2012: Recommendations 6 and 7 in this guideline update and replace recommendation 6 in the NICE guideline on four commonly used methods to increase physical activity (NICE guideline PH2), which was originally published in March 2006.

Minor changes since publication

November 2023: We added a link in recommendation 7 to the NICE guideline on behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions.

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