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The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity. The Perspective of the Health System.
Enrico Michelini
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Paperback. The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity Num Pages: 209 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBNH; MBP; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion. This is the main result of the present analysis of national strategies for the promotion of physical activity issued by the health ministries of France, Germany, and Italy. All these health-strategies are rather ambiguous on this subject: They mention sport systematically as an abstract term, but they marginalise it as a medium of health in its traditional-competitive form. As a consequence, while sport has generally been considered healthy over a long period in the past, most health organisations today recommend only moderate physical activity as ... Read more
Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion. This is the main result of the present analysis of national strategies for the promotion of physical activity issued by the health ministries of France, Germany, and Italy. All these health-strategies are rather ambiguous on this subject: They mention sport systematically as an abstract term, but they marginalise it as a medium of health in its traditional-competitive form. As a consequence, while sport has generally been considered healthy over a long period in the past, most health organisations today recommend only moderate physical activity as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Weisbaden, Germany
ISBN
9783658081874
SKU
V9783658081874
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99-15
About Enrico Michelini
Enrico Michelini did his doctorate in sport science at the University of Tübingen and in cotutelle with the University of Turin. He is currently a Postdoc at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science of the TU Dortmund.
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