The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era

Harrington, Deirdre M. and O’Reilly, Michelle (2020) The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era. PLOS Medicine, 17 (8). e1003267. ISSN 1549-1277 (https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PMED.1003267)

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Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has illuminated the chasm of societal inequality and vulnerability within the United Kingdom concurrently highlighted by the February 2020 Marmot Review [1]. These inequalities and vulnerabilities have been omnipresent in other public health crises, such as child mental health [2], childhood obesity levels [3], and, of most relevance to this piece, physical inactivity [4]. Rather than addressing the underlying inequalities driving these crises, governments have placed schools on the frontline of delivering solutions.

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