1st Edition
Football and Health Improvement: an Emergent Field
1. Football and health improvement: an emerging field
Daniel Parnell and Andy Pringle
2. A perspective from key stakeholders on football and health improvement
Angus Martin, Simon Morgan, Daniel Parnell, Matthew Philpott, Andy Pringle, Michael Rigby, Andy Taylor and Jon Topham
3. Supporting lifestyle risk reduction: promoting men’s health through professional football
S. Zwolinsky, J. McKenna, A. Pringle, A. Daly-Smith, S. Robertson and A. White
4. Effectiveness of a community football programme on improving physiological markers of health in a hard-to-reach male population: the role of exercise intensity
Andrew Thomas Hulton, David Flower, Rebecca Murphy, Dave Richardson, Barry Drust and Kathryn Curran
5. Evaluating conflict mitigation and health improvement through soccer: a two-year study of Mifalot’s ‘United Soccer for Peace’ programme
Tal Litvak-Hirsch, Yair Galily and Michael Leitner
6. The pursuit of lifelong participation: the role of professional football clubs in the delivery of physical education and school sport in England
Daniel Parnell, Sarah Buxton, Des Hewitt, Matthew J. Reeves, Ed Cope and Richard Bailey
7. Can ‘English Premier League’ funding for PE and school sport achieve its aims?
Stephen Zwolinsky, Jim McKenna, Daniel Parnell and Andy Pringle
8. The influence of club football on children’s daily physical activity
Glen Nielsen, Anna Bugge and Lars Bo Andersen
9. Football for health: getting strategic
Simon Lansley and Daniel Parnell
Biography
Daniel Parnell is a senior lecturer in business management at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests cover the sport and leisure sectors within the UK and he works globally on a number of projects, in particular on the social role of sport.
Andy Pringle is Reader in physical activity, exercise and health at Leeds Beckett University. He researches the impact of physical activity and public health interventions. He is ‘Fellow’ of the Royal Society of Public Health and a Topic Expert, (physical activity) for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence.
