It's Time to Move: Integrating Physical Activity Assessment, Prescription and Referral through Policy and Systems Change

It’s Time to Move is a multi-year, multi-pronged effort to address policy and systems changes to define, standardize, and integrate physical activity measures into the healthcare system and clinician workflows and connect patients to physical activity prescriptions that help them on their journeys toward active living. This work addresses regulatory change across multiple federal agencies and initiatives with non-governmental or quasi-governmental entities. These different entities and the role they have in this work are listed in the “Physical Activity Assessment, Prescription, and Referral Action Plan Key Stakeholders” section. It’s Time to Move will also connect the work in US healthcare with other policy and systems changes across other NPAP sectors (education, business/industry, community, military, fitness and parks, and sports) to support physical activity promotion and infrastructure.

Whitsel LP, Bantham A. It's Time to Move: Integrating Physical Activity Assessment, Prescription, and Referral through Policy and Systems Change. J Healthy Eat Act Living. 2023 Aug 1;3(1):1-6. PMID: 37794923; PMCID: PMC10546937.