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Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective. Moving beyond the usual biophysical and epidemiological approaches, it defines and explores the key themes that are shaping the global physical activity debate.

Unrivalled in its scale and scope, it presents the latest data on physical activity from around the world, including case studies from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Drawing on social, economic and behavioural sciences, it covers contexts from the global to the local and introduces the dominant ideas which inform the study of physical activity. Its 41 chapters examine the use of different forms of evidence in policymaking, the role of organisations in advocating physical activity, and the practical realities of public health interventions.

The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice is a landmark publication for all students, academics, policymakers and practitioners interested in the social-scientific study of sport, exercise, physical activity and public health.

فهرست

PART 1: Policy Issues in Physical Activity

THEME A: Policy Concepts and Contexts

1. Concepts and Theories in Physical Activity Policy
2. Putting Physical Activity on the Policy Agenda
3. The Global Physical Inactivity Pandemic: An Analysis of Knowledge Production
4. Is Exercise Medicine?
5. Sport and Physical Activity for Health and Wellbeing: Choice and Competing Outcomes
6. The Imperative of Physical Activity in Public Health Policy and Practice

THEME B: Evidence and Policy

7. The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Biomedical Evidence to Inform Physical Activity Guidelines
8. Only Connect: How Social Science Can Improve Physical Activity Guidance
9. The Use of Behavioural Evidence in PA Policy: Is PA Policy Evidence Based?
10. Tracing Translations: The Journey from Evidence to Policy to Physical Activity Promotion Campaigns
11. Measuring Physical Activity

THEME C: Policy Communities and Physical Activity

12. Physical Activity and Mental Health: A Focus on Depression
13. Neighbourhood Accessibility and Active Travel
14. The Environment, Physical Activity, Recreation and the Outdoors
15. Sport Policy
16. Young People, Physical Activity and ‘Active Play’ Promotion in Canada
17. Education, Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion

PART 2: Practices

THEME D: People, Places and Physical Activity

18. Physical Activity and Ageing
19. Girls, Women and Physical Activity
20. Disability and Physical Activity
21. Physical Activity, Families and Households
22. Workplace Physical Activity: Theory, Policy and Practice
23. Physical Activity in Schools
24. Physical Activity in Prisons

THEME E: Understanding and Evaluating Practices and Programmes

25. Employing Voluntary Sports Organisations in the Implementation of Physical Activity Policy
26. Physical Activity Opportunities for Young People: A Case Study of StreetGames
27. Schools, Corporations and Promotion of Physical Activity to Fight Obesity
28. The Olympic Games and Physical Activity Promotion
29. The Role of Evaluation in School Sport Policy, Provision and Participation: Change4Life School Sports Clubs
30. Linking Physical Activity and Health Evaluation to Policy: Lessons from UK Evaluations
31. Modelling the Cost Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions: The Case of GP Based Interventions
32. Cycling: A Path to Physical Activity through Transportation, Sport and Leisure
33. ‘Will to Win’: The Darker Side of Elite Swimming

PART 3: International Perspectives on Physical Activity Policy and Practice

THEME F: Physical Activity Policy and Practice Around the World

34. The Arab Region
35. Australia
36. Brazil
37. The European Union
38. India
39. South Africa
40. The United Kingdom
41. The United States of America

نویسندگان

Joe Piggin is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Joe’s research covers two main areas, namely sport policy translation into marketing and programmes, and physical activity policy. He has published articles on physical activity policy in New Zealand, the UK and in a global context. Joe holds a PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Louise Mansfield is research lead for welfare, health and wellbeing (Institute for Environment, Health and Societies) and Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Brunel University London, UK. Her research focusses on the relationship between sport, physical activity and public health. She is interested in partnership and community approaches to physical activity engagement and issues of health, wellbeing, inequality and diversity. She has led research projects for the Department of Health, Youth Sport Trust, Sport Scotland, ESRC, Medical Research Council, Macmillan Cancer Support, Public Health England and Sport England. She sits on the editorial boards for Leisure Studies, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

Mike Weed is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) and Professor of Applied Policy Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Drawing on a wide range of social science disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, economics, geography and policy science, his work has focussed on informing, improving and interrogating policy in the applied domains of public health, physical activity, physical education, sport, tourism, transport, urban development and major events. Professor Weed is Strategic Director of the Centre for Sport, Physical Education and Activity Research (SPEAR), editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sport and Tourism, and sits on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and Psychology of Sport and Exercise.