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

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 that 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: an activity-based community relations and reconciliation initiative

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 Interventi

ons shares valuable advice and lessons learned to inform the next generation of sports-based public health initiatives.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-5995-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés