1st Edition

Healthy Stadia An Insight from Policy to Practice

Edited By Daniel Parnell, Kathryn Curran, Matthew Philpott Copyright 2018
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations. Indeed, many countries have sought strategies to promote health and reduce health inequalities. A ‘settings approach’ to promoting health has been endorsed by the World Health Organization, which has seen settings such as workplaces, schools, hospitals and prisons utilised to promote health. Alongside this, sport has received... Read more

Introduction: Healthy stadia: an insight from policy to practice Daniel Parnell, Kathryn Curran and Matthew Philpott  1. Perspectives from those involved in healthy stadia Daniel Cade, Kathryn Curran, Andy Fuller, Jenny Hacker, Clive Knight, Simon Lansley, Daniel Parnell and Matthew Philpott 2. Who ate all the pies? The importance of food in the Australian sporting experience Keith D. Parry, Timothy Hall and Alastair Baxter 3. Sport heritage and the healthy stadia agenda: an overview Gregory Ramshaw 4. An evaluation of opportunistic health checks at cricket matches: the Boundaries for Life initiative Chet Trivedy, Ivo Vlaev, Russell Seymour and Matthew Philpott 5. Health promotion orientation of GAA sports clubs in Ireland Aoife Lane, Niamh Murphy, Alex Donohoe and Colin Regan  6. The community impact of football pitches: a case study of Maidstone United FC Anthony May and Daniel Parnell 7. Improving the physical and mental well-being of typically hard-to-reach men: an investigation of the impact of the Active Rovers project Colin J. Lewis, Matthew J. Reeves and Simon J. Roberts 8. Success of a sports-club led-community X-PERT Diabetes Education Programme Angela Morgan, Dee Drew, Angela Clifford and Katrina Hull 9. Tackling mental health: the role of professional football clubs Kathryn Curran, Simon Rosenbaum, Daniel Parnell, Brendon Stubbs, Andy Pringle and Jackie Hargreaves 10. Sport policy and English primary physical education: the role of professional football clubs in outsourcing Daniel Parnell, Ed Cope, Richard Bailey and Paul Widdop  11. ‘It brings the lads together’: a critical exploration of older men’s experiences of a weight management programme delivered through a Healthy Stadia project Lorena Lozano-Sufrategui, Andy Pringle, David Carless and Jim McKenna  12. Lessons from the field for working in Healthy Stadia: physical activity

Biography

Daniel Parnell is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management. He has extensive research leadership experience with national interventions that aim to use sport to develop social and health outcomes.



Kathryn Curran is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity, Exercise and Health and Non-Executive Director of the NGO European Healthy Stadia Network. Kathryn’s primary research interests and outputs centre on the design, implementation and evaluation of community physical activity and health interventions.



Matthew Philpott is Executive Director of the NGO European Healthy Stadia Network. Matthew has worked in the area of health promoting settings for over 12 years, with an initial research background in philosophy and psychology.