@article{720836,
      recid = {720836},
      author = {Pate, Russell R., and Oria, Maria, and Pillsbury, Laura,},
      title = {Fitness measures and health outcomes in youth [electronic  resource] /},
      pages = {1 online resource (273 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be  active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health  outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical  fitness testing in American youth was established on a  large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on  performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an  emphasis on health-related fitness. Using appropriately  selected measures to collected fitness data in youth will  advance our understanding of how fitness among youth  translates into better health. In Fitness Measures and  Health Outcomes in Youth, the IOM assesses the relationship  between youth fitness test items and health outcomes,  recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance  for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for  needed research. The report concludes that selected  cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and  body composition measures should be in fitness surveys and  in schools. Collecting fitness data nationally and in  schools helps with setting and achieving fitness goals and  priorities for public health at an individual and national  level" Publisher's Summary.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/720836},
}