Physical Literacy

Marta Erlandson

Email

marta.erlandson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Inventing Chronic Disease Management for Children with Congenital Heart Disease

  • Mending Little Hearts - Children’s Healthy-Heart Activity Monitoring Program in Saskatchewan (CHAMPS) (link)

Expertise

  • Child/Youth cardiac conditions and rehabilitation

  • Growth and development in children

  • Effects of physical activity and inactivity in children’s health

  • ActiGraph Accelerometers – physical activity measuring tool

  • DEXA Scans

  • Physical Literacy Theory

Amanda Froehlich Chow

Email

a.fc@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Listening and Learning: Applying a Community-Based Participatory Approach to the Design of a Physical Literacy Model Aimed at Supporting Indigenous Older Adults to Age in Place

  • A Physical Literacy Focused Approach to Building Bonds Among Indigenous Children, their Families and Communities

  • Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Approaches to Dementia and Chronic Conditions: A Case Study

Select Publications

  • Collaborative Approaches to Team-Based Primary Health Care for Individuals with Dementia in Rural and Remote Settings: A Scoping Review. (link)

  • Healthy Start–Départ Santé: A pilot study of a multilevel intervention to increase physical activity, fundamental movement skills and healthy eating in rural childcare centres. (link)

  • Promoting Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Physical Literacy Among Preschoolers Attending Childcare Centres Healthy Start-Départ Santé Intervention Using the RE-AIM Framework. (link)

Expertise

  • Physical Activity

  • Physical Literacy

  • Population Health Research

  • Early Childhood Development

  • Program Planning

  • Program Evaluation