Background research informing the new Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years, and that involved a number of HALO researchers, is published in a special issue of BMC Public Health that was released today:  bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-17-supplement-5. A summary of the articles in this special issue are below.

  1. Mark S. Tremblay, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Kristi B. Adamo, Salomé Aubert, Joel D. Barnes, Louise Choquette, Mary Duggan, Guy Faulkner, Gary S. Goldfield, Casey E. Gray, Reut Gruber, Katherine Janson, Ian Janssen, Xanne Janssen, Alejandra Jaramillo Garcia, Nicholas Kuzik, Claire LeBlanc, Joanna MacLean, Anthony D. Okely, Veronica J. Poitras, Mary-Ellen Rayner, John J. Reilly, Margaret Sampson, John C. Spence, Brian W. Timmons, Valerie Carson. Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years (0–4 years): An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):874.
  2. Valerie Carson, Eun-Young Lee, Lyndel Hewitt, Cally Jennings, Stephen Hunter, Nicholas Kuzik, Jodie A. Stearns, Stephanie Powley Unrau, Veronica J. Poitras, Casey Gray, Kristi B. Adamo, Ian Janssen, Anthony D. Okely, John C. Spence, Brian W. Timmons, Margaret Sampson, Mark S. Tremblay. Systematic review of the relationships between physical activity and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years). BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):874.
  3. Veronica J. Poitras, Casey E. Gray, Xanne Janssen, Salome Aubert, Valerie Carson, Guy Faulkner, Gary S. Goldfield, John J. Reilly, Margaret Sampson, Mark S. Tremblay. Systematic review of the relationships between sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (0–4 years). BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):868.
  4. Jean-Philippe Chaput, Casey E. Gray, Veronica J. Poitras, Valerie Carson, Reut Gruber, Catherine S. Birken, Joanna E. MacLean, Salomé Aubert, Margaret Sampson, Mark S. Tremblay. Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indicators in the early years (0–4 years). BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):855.
  5. Nicholas Kuzik, Veronica J. Poitras, Mark S. Tremblay, Eun-Young Lee, Stephen Hunter, Valerie Carson. Systematic review of the relationships between combinations of movement behaviours and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years). BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):849.
  6. Valerie Carson, Mark S. Tremblay, Sebastien F. M. Chastin. Cross-sectional associations between sleep duration, sedentary time, physical activity, and adiposity indicators among Canadian preschool-aged children using compositional analyses. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):848.
  7. Negin Riazi, Subha Ramanathan, Meghan O’Neill, Mark S. Tremblay, Guy Faulkner. Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines for the early years (0–4 years): exploring the perceptions of stakeholders and end users regarding their acceptability, barriers to uptake, and dissemination. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):841.
  8. Jean-Philippe Chaput, Rachel C. Colley, Salomé Aubert, Valerie Carson, Ian Janssen, Karen C. Roberts, Mark S. Tremblay. Proportion of preschool-aged children meeting the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and associations with adiposity: results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):829.
  9. Eun-Young Lee, Kylie D. Hesketh, Stephen Hunter, Nicholas Kuzik, Ryan E. Rhodes, Christina M. Rinaldi, John C. Spence, Valerie Carson. Meeting new Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years and associations with adiposity among toddlers living in Edmonton, Canada. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):840.
  10. Anthony D. Okely, Davina Ghersi, Kylie D. Hesketh, Rute Santos, Sarah P. Loughran, Dylan P. Cliff, Trevor Shilton, David Grant, Rachel A. Jones, Rebecca M. Stanley, Julie Sherring, Trina Hinkley, Stewart G. Trost, Clare McHugh, Simon Eckermann, Karen Thorpe, Karen Waters, Timothy S. Olds, Tracy Mackey, Rhonda Livingstone, Hayley Christian, Harriette Carr, Adam Verrender, João R. Pereira, Zhiguang Zhang, Katherine L. Downing, Mark S. Tremblay. A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines – The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the early years (Birth to 5 years): an integration of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):869.
  11. Kylie D. Hesketh, Katherine L. Downing, Karen Campbell, David Crawford, Jo Salmon, Jill A. Hnatiuk. Proportion of infants meeting the Australian 24-hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years: data from the Melbourne InFANT Program. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):856.
  12. Rute Santos, Zhiguang Zhang, João R. Pereira, Eduarda Sousa-Sá, Dylan P. Cliff, Anthony D. Okely. Compliance with the Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for the early years: associations with weight status. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):867.
  13. Dylan P. Cliff, Jade McNeill, Stewart A. Vella, Steven J. Howard, Rute Santos, Marijka Batterham, Edward Melhuish, Anthony D. Okely, Marc de Rosnay. Adherence to 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years and associations with social-cognitive development among Australian preschool children. BMC Pub Health. 2017;17(Suppl 5):857.