Part I: Fundamentals of Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology -- Chapter 2: The Descriptive Epidemiology of Sedentary Behaviour -- Chapter 3: Measurement of Sedentary Behaviour in Population Studies -- Chapter 4: Analysis and Interpretation of Sedentary Behaviour Data -- Part II: Health Effects of Sedentary Behaviour -- Chapter 5: Physiological Responses to Sedentary Behaviour -- Chapter 6: Genetics of Sedentariness -- Chapter 7: Sedentary Behaviour, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome -- Chapter 8: Sedentary Behaviour and Cardiovascular Disease -- Chapter 9: Sedentary Behaviour and Cancer -- Chapter 10: Sedentary Behaviour and Depression -- Chapter 11: Sedentary Behaviour and Adiposity -- Chapter 12: Sedentary Behaviour and Psychosocial Health Across the Life Course -- Chapter 13: Sedentary Behaviour and Ageing -- Chapter 14: Sedentary Behaviour and Mortality -- Part III: Understanding Sedentary Behaviour and Promoting Reductions in Time Spent Sedentary -- Chapter 15: An Ecological Model for Understanding and Influencing Sedentary Behaviour -- Chapter 16: Sedentary Behaviour at the Individual Level: Correlates, Theories, and Interventions -- Chapter 17: Specific Interventions Targeting Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents -- Chapter 18: Workplace Programs Aimed at Limiting Occupational Sitting -- Chapter 19: Approaches to Decrease Sedentary Behaviour Among the Elderly -- Chapter 20: Interventions Directed at Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in Persons with Pre-existing Disease or Disability -- Chapter 21: Specific Approaches to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Persons with Overweight/Obesity -- Chapter 22: Programmes Targeting Sedentary Behaviour Among Ethnic Minorities and Immigrants -- Chapter 23: Sedentary Behaviour at the Community Level: Correlates, Theories, and Intervention -- Chapter 24: Sedentary Behaviour and the Social and Physical Environment -- Chapter 25: Targeting Sedentary Behaviour at the Policy Level -- Chapter 26: Dynamics of Sedentary Behaviours and Systems-Based Approach: Future Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Course Epidemiology of Sedentary Behaviours -- Chapter 27: From a Public to a Global and Planetary Health Perspective on Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology -- Chapter 28: Ergonomic Support for Physiologically Correct Sitting -- Chapter 29: Limitations in Sedentary Behaviour Research and Future Research Needs.