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The literature review will provide a full and balanced perspective of the attitude of employers

Table of Contents

1 Introduction (The literature review will provide a full and balanced perspective of the attitude of employers) 3
2 Policy and influence factors by region and culture 3
European Union 4
United Kingdom 6
Findings 7
Government Policies: 8
Public sector policy regarding health facilities in UK 10
Factors influencing physical activity of urban workers in UK 13
Age 13
Gender differences 13
Ethnicity 14
NorthAmerica: USA and Canada 15
Policies of US Government 15
Public sector policies in US and Canada regarding physical activities of employees 18
Factors that Influence Physical activities in US and Canada 20
Hispanic communities in the USA, Latin America and Spain 21
Government Policy for Hispanic communities in USA, Latin America and Spain 22
Public Sector Policy regarding Physical Activities 23
Factors affecting policies regarding physical activities 24
Asia: China, Hong Kong and Taipei 25
Factors that Influence Physical activities in China 29
3 Implications of previous research 29
Figure1: The framework of influence factors of physical activity participation of old workers. 31
Paternalistic Theory: 32
4 Summary/Conclusions 35
References 36

1 Introduction
The review will aim to synthesize theories and evidence from extant studies on this topic conducted in different countries and regions of the world. The literature review will provide a full and balanced perspective of the attitude of employers and employees themselves towards the participation in physical activity. On the other hand, this review will examine related public policy and its impact on workers’ PA participation, from a global perspective. In addition, this topic has previously received scant attention in mainland China.

The review will also address this gap and help to produce a broader idea of how urban workers can become more physically active and in doing so potentially become healthier through participation in Physical Activity (PA).

Existing literature have expanded knowledge of participation in sports and recreational activities among people (Department of Health, 2010; Department of Health, 2011). However, less attention has been put into the establishment of a theoretical framework to categorize the influencing factors and barriers to ‘activating’ workers. This literature review aims at defining the promoters and barriers which significantly influence urban workers to participate in physical activity.

The literature review has included the use of theories and models related to the concept of physical activities of the workers in the public sector organization. Furthermore, the analysis of the literature review also includes the identification and the analysis of the main reasons and causes that can have a noteworthy effect on the bodily activities of the urban workers in the European region…