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Sports-Based Health Interventions

Case Studies from Around the World

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Editors:
  1. David Conrad

    1. Hertfordshire County Council , Hertford, United Kingdom

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  2. Alan White

    1. Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Sport and Health: Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Sport and Public Health

      • David Conrad, Alan White
      Pages 3-27

    3. How Can the Health System Benefit from Increasing Participation in Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity?

      • Stephen Zwolinsky, Jim McKenna, Andy Pringle
      Pages 29-52

    4. Sport as a Vehicle for Health Promotion (and More)

      • Sami Kokko
      Pages 53-60

    5. Public Health in Sporting Settings: A Gender Perspective

      • Alan White
      Pages 61-76

    6. Sport and Public Health Partnership Working

      • David Conrad, Maria Abraham
      Pages 77-87

  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Time Out for Your Health: A Sports-Based Health Intervention Approach with American Football Teams

      • Ana N. Fadich
      Pages 91-100

    3. The Bristol Active Life Project: Physical Activity and Sport for Mental Health

      • David Carless, Kitrina Douglas
      Pages 101-115

    4. Football 4 Peace: An Activity-Based Community Relations and Reconciliation Initiative

      • Graham Spacey, Jack Sugden
      Pages 117-128

    5. Resilience Enhancing Program for Youth Survivors of the Beslan School Hostage-Taking

      • Stefan Vetter
      Pages 129-137

    6. Rotary International’s Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign

      • June Webber, Chris Skinner
      Pages 139-149

    7. Sex and Sport: An Australian Rules Football-Based Chlamydia Screening Initiative

      • Fabian Yuh Shiong Kong, Margaret Hellard, Jane Hocking
      Pages 151-159

    8. Skillz Kenya: An HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Initiative

      • Enouce Ndeche, Samson Chama
      Pages 161-171

    9. A Golf Programme for People with Mental Health Problems

      • Kitrina Douglas, David Carless
      Pages 173-180

    10. The Community Street Soccer Program

      • Emma Sherry
      Pages 181-188

    11. Promoting Mental Well-being in Rugby League Communities

      • Jane Riley
      Pages 189-199

    12. Slum Soccer: Female Empowerment Through Football

      • Vikrem Vybav, V. G. Raghvendran, Marisa Schlenker, Abhijeet Barse
      Pages 201-209

    13. Fighting for Peace: From the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Beyond

      • Luke Dowdney, Alice Sampson
      Pages 211-230
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About this book

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.


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Editors and Affiliations

  • Hertfordshire County Council , Hertford, United Kingdom

    David Conrad

  • Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Alan White

About the editors

Alan White is a professor of Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council and Associate Member of the Centre for Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. Together they have previously edited two books for health professionals – Men's Health: How To Do It (published by Radcliffe in 2007) and Promoting Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe 2010). Professor White is currently evaluating the Premier League Health with the English Premier League, is part of the Evaluation team of the Fit Fans in Training initiative with the Scottish Premier League and has run a two season long health campaign with the Leeds Rhino’s Rugby League team. He has recently headed up the completion of the ‘State of Men’s Health in Europe Report’ for the European Commission.    

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

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