Abstract

International initiatives like the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) have emerged to support monitoring and surveillanceofphysicalactivity,physical fitness,sedentarybehavioranditssocialandenvironmentalinfluencesamongchildrenand adolescents.1,2 The standardized methodology proposed by AHKGA focuses on the development of a Report Card, allows the compilation of knowledge gaps and highlights the most urgent needsandproblemsthat shouldbeconsidered by policymakersto promote an active healthy lifestyle among children and youth withineachcountry.2 Thispapersummarizesthe firstresultsofthe Ecuadorian 2018 Report Card (Figure 1) based on the AHKGA methodology.

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