Sports-Based Health Interventions - Case Studies from Around the World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	David Conrad • Alan White
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-5995-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
LSN:	1-4614-5995-8
Barcode:	9781461459958

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