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 w
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orts-Based Health Interventions Case Studies from Around the World
Sports-Based Health Interventions
David Conrad • Alan White Editors
Sports-Based Health Interventions Case Studies from Around the World Foreword by Mike Farrar CBE
Editors David Conrad Hertfordshire County Council Hertford, UK
Alan White Institute for Health & Wellbeing Leeds Beckett University Leeds, UK
ISBN 978-1-4614-5995-8 ISBN 978-1-4614-5996-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5996-5
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Foreword
No one should underestimate the global challenge of poor health and chronic disease. Governments of all political persuasion and levels of resource are increasingly facing an impossible task of spending more of their country’s GDP on health care than their economy can sustain. In short, poor health and lifestyle problems are crippling their people and their finances. And so what are the solutions to these problems? Simple—we need to help people make healthier choices in their lives, be it diet, exercise or managing alcohol misuse and stopping smoking. Easy to say, hugely difficult to do. But that is only if we continue to try and connect to people in the traditional ways. What this wonderful book tells us is that there are different and better ways to connect to each of us and help us to change our lives for the better. In this book you will find chapter after chapter of evidence and knowledge about how, by embracing the power of sport, we can enable real change in people’s lives. Not by hectoring or preaching but by inspiring and supporting. The power of sport may well be the single biggest means to engage some of the most unhealthy members of our communities, whether the issues be physical ai
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