Sport, Physical Activity and Public Health (Hardcover)

Introduction: Sport, physical activity and public healthLouise Mansfield and Joe Piggin 1. Bodies of knowledge: connecting the evidence bases on physical activity and health inequalitiesTess Kay 2. Should we privilege sport for health? The comparative effectiveness of UK Government investment in sport as a public health interventionMike Weed 3. The State and management of partnership arrangements in France: an analysis of the implementation of the ‘Sport, Health and Well-being’ planMarina Honta 4. A political spectator sport or policy priority? A review of sport, physical activity and public mental health policyAndy Smith, Jon Jones, Laura Houghton and Tom Duffell 5. Olympic sport and physical activity promotion: the rise and fall of the London 2012 pre-event mass participation ‘legacy'Paul Bretherton, Joe Piggin and Guillaume Bodet 6. Group fitness instructors as local level health promoters: a Foucauldian analysis of the politics of health/fitness dynamicPirkko Markula and Jocelyn Chikinda 7 Health, physical activity and the body: an inquiry into the lives of female migrant cleaners in DenmarkVerena Lenneis and Gertrud Pfister 8. Are they ‘worth their weight in gold’? Sport for older adults: benefits and barriers of their participation for sporting organisations Claire R. Jenkin, Rochelle M. Eime, Hans Westerbeek, Grant O’Sullivan and Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen 9 What difference does dance make? Critical conversations across dance, physical activity and public healthBeccy Watson, Brett Lashua and Pip Trevorrow 10. Examining the integration of sport and health promotion: partnership or paradox?Laura Misener and Katie E. Misener 11 Resourcefulness, reciprocity and reflexivity: the three Rs of partnership in sport for public health researchLouise Mansfield Research Notes 12. Exercise on referral: evidence and complexity at the nexus of public health and sport policyE. J. Oliver, C. L. Hanson, I. A. Lindsey and C. J. Dodd-Reynolds 13. The world turned upside down: sport, policy and ageingMichael Gard and Rylee A. Dionigi 14. The sociopolitics of sport, physical education, and school health in the United StatesJames D. Ressler, K. Andrew R. Richards and Paul M. Wright