Health Games

Websites:

GIS Health Game Homepage
GIS Health Game
GIS has many uses but did you ever think that this technology could improve your health? Not many people can come up with ways to use a mapping system to get more active. Well,that’s about to change. The goal of this site is to keep you informed about GIS and its enormous potential to improve apparent decreases in physical activity and fitness which is quickly leading to the emergence of new health trends in obesity and debilitating diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

Model Health Game Websites:

Garfield Fitness Unity Fun Program
GarfieldFun.org
Walking provides many great benefits to mind, body, and spirit! The Garfield YMCA would like to invite the Garfield community to have some F.U.N. and join our new Walking Program.

Learn How Garfield, NJ is Using GIS to Improve Child Health:

Garfield Wii Project
Garfield Wii Project
The Extreme Nintendo Wii Tournament is designed to get children involved with physical activities without the stress of performing outside the comfort of the indoors. Activities such as these allow children to use technology to get fit. The purpose of bringing Wii to Garfield’s children is to see how well the reception of technology is amongst children and to find out whether it is a good way to get children to embrace exercise, introducing a new trend of health-gaming.