Policy interventions on children and physical activity: Lazio and Tuscany in Italy

The stewardship interventions in Italy were devoted to two local policies. In Lazio Region, Municipaliadi, the intervention was as sports competition for school children, promoted by the Municipality of Rome integrating education and physical activity. A Delphi-like working group on knowledge and research translation into policy making was used by IRPPS-CNR, involving 18 people from public health doctors, researchers, politicians and journalists. In Tuscany Region, IFC-CNR in collaboration with Valdarno Health Society, carried out an intervention promoting setting up a group of experts (pediatrics, cardiology, pneumology, psychology, epidemiology, sociology, educating) to produce research to evaluate physical activity performance (100 children via personal devices); in addition, a seminar for public administrators was given to learn about reporting and searching scientific literature.