Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice
Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. Moving beyond the…
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Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice
Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. 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. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective.
Its 41 chapters examine the use of different forms of evidence in policymaking, the role of 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.