Physical activity

Task 3

New Zealand healthcare sector has a serious concern about physical activities among adults. The physical activity among adults includes brisk walking, golf, housework, heavy gardening, plumbing, etc. the minimum requirement of this physical activity is minim 30 minutes in a day and at least five days in a week. In concern of this, the statistics of Adults are identified who are aged 15 years and over. Currently, doing physical activity is widely using the indicator of the health status of a population.

In a survey, it is identified that there are 50.8% of physically active people. It is because these people did these activities at least 2.5 hours in the past week. Similarly, 45.3% population is highly physically active as they did these activities at least 5 hours in the past week. On the other hand, 35.2% population did these activities at least 30 minutes in the past seven days, so they are considered in the insufficient physical activity because they did not meet their requirements of being ‘physically active’. At last, 14% population did these activities less than 30 minutes during the past week, so they are considered in the ‘Little or no physical activity’.

Four groups are selected in this analysis, like Maori, Pacific, Asian, and European. In concern to Maori group, 50.7% population are Physically active, 45.6% are Highly physically active, 33.4% are Insufficient physical activity, and 15.9% are Little or no physical activity in the year 2018-19. For Pacific population, it is identified that 44.8% are ‘Physically active’, 41.0% are ‘Highly physically active’, 36.1% are ‘Insufficient physical active’ and 19.1% are ‘Little or no physical active’. Similarly, 42.8% Asian population is ‘Physically active’, 41.0% are ‘Highly physically active’, 36.1% are ‘Insufficient physical active and 19.1% are ‘Little or no physical active’.

At last, the European population also provided their details of physical activity, there 53.1% involved in the ‘Physically activity’, 47.7% are involved in the ‘Highly physically activity’, 34.6% are involved in the ‘Insufficient physical activity’, and 12.2% are included in the ‘Little or no physical activity’. However, it can be said that the European population is more physical activity than others because it has the highest value in physical activity and high physical activity. On the other hand, the Asian population is the lowest physical activity as it has the smallest active in physical activity and high physical activity.