Fysisk aktivitet på recept - en underutnyttjad resurs. Stora variationer mellan landstingen, visar statistik över förskrivningen
Engelsk titel: Physical activity on prescription - an underutilized resource. Statistics on prescription shows large variations between counties
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Författare:
Kallings, Lena V
Email: lena.kallings@gih.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 17
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 13017844
Sammanfattning
Swedish healthcare service should offer counselling with written prescriptions or pedometers and special follow-ups to patients with insufficient levels of physical activity, according to the National Board of Health and Welfare. Physical activity on prescription (Swedish: FaR) is a method based on five cornerstones: a patient centred counselling, the handbook Physical activity in disease prevention and disease treatment, an individualized written prescription, collaboration between the health care sector and societal organizations, and follow-up of the prescription.
There has been a positive trend in the total number of FaR prescribed in Sweden since 2007, with a yearly increase of 30-67 %. Though, only 49,000 FaR were prescribed in 2010. This could be described as in average about 5 FaR/1000 inhabitants or about 1 FaR/1000 healthcare visits, with large variations between different county councils and regions. In conclusion there is a need for improved implementation of FaR.