Overview
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
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Sport and Health: Setting the Scene
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Case Studies
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sports-Based Health Interventions
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Around the World
Editors: David Conrad, Alan White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5996-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5995-8Published: 24 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5996-5Published: 23 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 324
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Social Work