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Sports-Based Health Interventions: Case Studies from Around the World de David Conrad

Sports-Based Health Interventions: Case Studies from Around the World

Editat de David Conrad, Alan White
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 dec 2015
This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community. It explores the role of sport and sports settings as a vehicle for achieving health outcomes, as well as some of the practical and moral challenges presented by sport and public health partnerships working together.
 
Twenty detailed examples illustrate the broad range of programs which have already been developed around the world, from across the spectrum of public health activity.
 
Chapters include: 
•Time Out for Your Health: A sports-based health intervention approach with American football teams
•Promoting Mental Wellbeing in Rugby League communities
•Slum Soccer – female empowerment through football
•Football 4 Peace
•Sport as a post-disaster psychosocial intervention for children in Bam, Iran
•Sex and Sport: An Australian rules football-based chlamydia screening initiative

As well as showcasing what has been achieved in this exciting new field, Sports-based Health Interventions shares valuable advice and lessons learnt to inform the next generation of sports-based public health initiatives.

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ISBN-13: 9781461459958
ISBN-10: 1461459958
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: XXXV, 324 p. 24 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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Cuprins

Introduction: The Role of Sport in Public Health.- Part I: Sport and Disaster Response.- Post-Earthquake, Iran.- Civil War, Ivory Coast.- Part II: Peace and Social Capital Building through Sport.- Open Fun Football Schools, Balkans.- Right to Play, International.- Dads and Lads, UK.- Fight for Peace, Brazil.- Part III: Sport and Immunisation.- Olympic Sport and Immunisation Festival, Ghana.- Kick Polio Out of Africa.- Part IV: Sport and Screening.- "Sex and Sport" Chlamydia Screening, Australia.- "Kick N Test" HIV and TB Screening Football Tournament, Kenya.- Part V: Health Promotion in Sports Settings.- CALM Mental Health Promotion in Rugby Clubs, UK.- Healthy Stadia, Europe.- Tackling Men's Health, UK.- Golf for People with Severe and Enduring Mental Health Problems, UK.- Premier League Health, UK.- Developing Health Promotion Resources for Use in Sports Settings, UK.- Part VI: Health Promotion with a Sport Theme.- HIV/AIDS Projects in Africa.- "It's a Goal" Mental Health Intervention, UK.- Liverpool FC Men's Health Work.- Conclusion.  

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Notă biografică

Alan White is a professor of Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council and Associate Member of the Centre for Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. Together they have previously edited two books for health professionals – Men's Health: How To Do It (published by Radcliffe in 2007) and Promoting Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe 2010). Professor White is currently evaluating the Premier League Health with the English Premier League, is part of the Evaluation team of the Fit Fans in Training initiative with the Scottish Premier League and has run a two season long health campaign with the Leeds Rhino’s Rugby League team. He has recently headed up the completion of the ‘State of Men’s Health in Europe Report’ for the European Commission.    

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This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community. It explores the role of sport and sports settings as a vehicle for achieving health outcomes, as well as some of the practical and moral challenges presented by sport and public health partnerships working together.
 
Twenty detailed examples illustrate the broad range of programs which have already been developed around the world, from across the spectrum of public health activity.
 
Chapters include: 
•Time Out for Your Health: A sports-based health intervention approach with American football teams
•Promoting Mental Wellbeing in Rugby League communities
•Slum Soccer – female empowerment through football
•Football 4 Peace
•Sport as a post-disaster psychosocial intervention for children in Bam, Iran
•Sex and Sport: An Australian rules football-based chlamydia screening initiative

As well as showcasing what has been achieved in this exciting new field, Sports-based Health Interventions shares valuable advice and lessons learnt to inform the next generation of sports-based public health initiatives.

Caracteristici

Features a broad spectrum of health promotion projects from Europe, Africa, the US, and Australia Highlights innovative public health interventions with a sport theme or taking place in a sport setting, addressing health issues such as HIV/AIDS, conflict and natural disasters, immunization, and mental health Examines the lessons learned and generalizability of these projects to ?other countries or other public health issues Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras