Sport, Physical Activity and Public Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mansfield, Louise; Piggin, Joe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection includes articles which examine the complex relationships between sport, physical activity and public health. It reflects a current expansion in academic, policy and practice interest in sport and physical activity for public health. Our contributors discuss issues connected to the politics and policy of sport, physical activity and public health by focusing on a range of theoretical themes including evidence and knowledge production, national policies and the political promotion of sport and physical activity for health, sports mega-events and public health, social diversity in community sport for health programming, education and training in physical education and fitness sectors, and critical perspectives on partnership working in sport and public health. Overall, the chapters reflect debate about the motivations of national and local government intervention in policy making on public health that includes the role of sport and / or physical activity, and explores the discussions about the impact that such policy decisions have on people and their communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351621144
• Artikelnr.: 56962614

Autorenporträt

Louise Mansfield, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Brunel University London, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between sport, physical activity and public health. She is interested in partnership and community approaches to female involvement in physical activity and issues of health, wellbeing, inequality and diversity. She has led research projects for both sport and public health organisations. She sits on the editorial boards for Leisure Studies, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Joe Piggin, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences in the UK. Joe's research covers the areas of sport policy translation into marketing and programmes, health promotion at mega sports events, and physical activity policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sport, physical activity and public health 1. Bodies of
knowledge: connecting the evidence bases on physical activity and health
inequalities 2. Should we privilege sport for health? The comparative
effectiveness of UK Government investment in sport as a public health
intervention 3. The State and management of partnership arrangements in
France: an analysis of the implementation of the 'Sport, Health and
Well-being' plan 4. A political spectator sport or policy priority? A
review of sport, physical activity and public mental health policy 5.
Olympic sport and physical activity promotion: the rise and fall of the
London 2012 pre-event mass participation 'legacy' 6. Group fitness
instructors as local level health promoters: a Foucauldian analysis of the
politics of health/fitness dynamic 7. Health, physical activity and the
body: an inquiry into the lives of female migrant cleaners in Denmark 8.
Are they 'worth their weight in gold'? Sport for older adults: benefits and
barriers of their participation for sporting organisations 9 What
difference does dance make? Critical conversations across dance, physical
activity and public health 10. Examining the integration of sport and
health promotion: partnership or paradox? 11. Resourcefulness, reciprocity
and reflexivity: the three Rs of partnership in sport for public health
research Research Notes 12. Exercise on referral: evidence and complexity
at the nexus of public health and sport policy 13. The world turned upside
down: sport, policy and ageing 14. The sociopolitics of sport, physical
education, and school health in the United States