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Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Hardcover)
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Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Physical Activity and Health
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This book critically evaluates the complex relations between
physical activity, health imperatives and cultural and social
opportunities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The book
explores the uncertainty of knowledge around physical activity
behavior and its distinctive meanings in LMIC contexts, the factors
influencing physical activity, and how populations across the world
understand and live the concept of physical activity. It discusses
the key challenges and opportunities for sustaining physical
activity within geographically and culturally diverse contexts of
LMICs; introduces the reader to contemporary global physical
activity approaches, models and policies; and presents case studies
from around the world, including Asia, Africa, South America, the
Pacific and Europe. Overall, the text relates theory to practical
examples to facilitate a better understanding of physical activity
in context, emphasizes the need for targeted, context-specific and
locally relevant interventions to create PA-enabling environments
in LMICs, and highlights the role of a range of stakeholders,
including policy makers and urban planners, sport and recreation
services, mass media, educators and the civil society in shaping
population physical activity levels. Taken together, this edited
volume brings together the latest research on PA in LMICs from
around the world, informs and directs future research and necessary
policy change towards the sustainable integration of PA
opportunities, and seeks to ultimately foster and promote
population-based PA in LMIC settings. By presenting empirical data
and policy recommendations, this text will appeal to scholars,
researchers and practitioners with an interest in physical activity
research, public health, health promotion, sociology of sport, and
sports sciences in LMICs, as well as policy makers and experts
working in health promotion, public health, sports and fitness, but
also in the urban planning and infrastructure and governmental
industries.
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