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Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health (Routledge International Handbooks) - Hardcover

 
9781032943084: Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health (Routledge International Handbooks)

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The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health provides students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with a comprehensive reference work in the field of physical activity and health. This new and authoritative text covers essential current and emerging topics in physical activity and health in the areas of mechanisms, epidemiology, determinants, measurement, interventions, and policy.The handbook also delivers chapter specific practical recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. The Handbook details fundamental background information on the history and development of physical activity and health and its many benefits for population physical and mental health and specific clinical groups. It outlines the latest evidence of how effective physical activity interventions are, and how they contribute co-benefits in different sectors, including transport and community planning, sport, mitigating climate change and how benefits can be demonstrated through comprehensive evaluation, including economic evaluation. Physical activity and health is a broad and wide-reaching field that is relevant to many areas, including exercise and sport science, public health, urban and transport planning, occupational health and clinical medicine. The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health will be an essential resource for researchers, students, policy makers and other professionals in these and many other related disciplines.

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Miranda Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. She is a physical activity epidemiologist and her research focuses on physical activity and health, particularly active travel, chronic disease, and population health. Her work has contributed to the UK Chief Medical Officer’s Physical Activity Guidelines.

Rona Macniven is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. Her research expertise is in physical activity, sport, wellbeing falls prevention, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and public health epidemiology and evaluation.

Max J Western is an Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Bath. His research focuses on motivation and behaviour change, exercise interventions for healthy and active ageing, and the use of digital tools to measure and support physical activity.

Klaus Gebel is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). In his research he mainly focuses on the relationship between urban design, physical activity, active transport and health.

Adrian Bauman is an Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Sydney University, Australia, with over 30 years of experience in public health and physical activity research. His research includes physical activity epidemiology, surveillance and measurement research, evaluating community-wide interventions and implementation science. He has contributed to physical activity policy translation, capacity building and training, and physical activity guideline development in several countries.

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