MOVE conducts research in how to establish and maintain a physically active lifestyle, and how general practitioners (GPs) can support an active lifestyle in the population by 'prescribing' exercise.

In a public health perspective, physical inactivity is a considerable problem; 58 percent of the Danish adult population is estimated to be less active than recommended. The GPs have regular contact with the Danish population and may play a key role in the prevention of health problems.

MOVE aims to support the GPs by providing concrete, evidence-based measures to prevent disease in different patient populations by increasing their levels of physical activity.

MOVE collaborates across sectors to develop a social prescribing tool in a Danish context, so that GPs and other health professionals may refer selected patient populations to health-promoting activities in the local community, for example through municipal services and link workers.

MOVE is organised as an interdisciplinary research group with expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, medicine, physiotherapy, psychology and public health sciences. The group has a close collaboration with researchers at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University.