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.
Author(s): Joe Piggin, Louise Mansfield, Mike Weed
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 626
City: Abingdon
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
PART I Policy issues in physical activity
Theme A Introduction: 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? A critical sociological examination
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 Introduction: 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 physical activity policy
10 Tracing translations: The journey from evidence to policy to physical activity promotion campaigns
11 Measuring physical activity
Theme C Introduction: 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 II Practices
Theme D Introduction: 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 Introduction: 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 III International perspectives on physical activity policy and practice
Theme F Introduction: 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
Index
