Sports-Based Health Interventions : Case Studies from Around the World / edited by David Conrad, Alan White.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XXXV, 324 pages 24 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color.)
- Edition:
- First edition 2016.
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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 partnership working. 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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- 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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- ISBN:
- 9781461459965
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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