The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity The Perspective of the Health System /

• Main Author: Michelini, Enrico (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2015.
• Subjects: Political science.; Comparative politics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Comparative Politics.

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-strat...

Table of Contents:

• The Acceptance of Sport in the Health System
• Defining Health, Physical Activity, Sport, and Their Relationship
• Health and Sport Systems
• Relationships between Sport and Health Systems
• Governance in the Promotion of Physical Activity
• What Role Do Sport Organizations Have?.