SPORTS-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS. CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

1. Introduction to Sport and Public Health
2. How Can the Health System Benefit from Increasing Participation in Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity?
3. Sport as a Vehicle for Health Promotion (and More)
4. Public Health in Sporting Settings: A Gender Perspective
5. Sport and Public Health Partnership Working
6. Time Out for Your Health: A Sports-Based Health Intervention Approach with American Football Teams
7. The Bristol Active Life Project: Physical Activity and Sport for Mental Health
8. Football 4 Peace: An Activity-Based Community Relations and Reconciliation Initiative
9. Resilience Enhancing Program for Youth Survivors of the Beslan School Hostage-Taking
10. Rotary International’s Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign
11. Sex and Sport: An Australian Rules Football-Based Chlamydia Screening Initiative
12. Skillz Kenya: An HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Initiative
13. A Golf Programme for People with Mental Health Problems
14. The Community Street Soccer Program
15. Promoting Mental Well-being in Rugby League Communities
16. Slum Soccer: Female Empowerment Through Football
17. Fighting for Peace: From the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Beyond
18. Millwall FC Medical Service: ‘No One Likes Us, We Do Care’—Working Together for Better Health in South London
19. Sport as a Post-Disaster Psychosocial Intervention for Children in Bam, Iran
20. Football Fans in Training: A Weight Management and Healthy Living Programme for Men Delivered via Scotland’s Premier Football Clubs
21. The Stanford Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial (SPORT)
22. It’s a Goal: A Football-Based Mental Health Programme
23. Promoting Healthy Physical Activity and Nutrition in a Low Socioeconomic Status Community: A University-Australian Rules Football Collaborative Model
24. “Manning Up for Men’s Health”: Sports Radio and the INTEGRIS Men’s Health University, Oklahoma, USA
25. ‘Quit Smoking with Barça’: An Initiative of the European Commission’s ‘Ex-Smokers Are Unstoppable’ Campaign
26. Conclusion: The Next Steps

This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community. It explores the role of sport and sports settings as a vehicle for achieving health outcomes, as well as some of the practical and moral challenges presented by sport and public health partnerships working together.

Twenty detailed examples illustrate the broad range of programs which have already been developed around the world, from across the spectrum of public health activity.

Chapters include:
• Time Out for Your Health: A sports-based health intervention approach with American football teams
• Promoting Mental Wellbeing in Rugby League communities
• Slum Soccer – female empowerment through football
• Football 4 Peace
• Sport as a post-disaster psychosocial intervention for children in Bam, Iran
• Sex and Sport: An Australian rules football-based chlamydia screening initiative

As well as showcasing what has been achieved in this exciting new field, Sports-based Health Interventions shares valuable advice and lessons learnt to inform the next generation of sports-based public health initiatives.

Features
• Features a broad spectrum of health promotion projects from Europe, Africa, the US, and Australia
• Highlights innovative public health interventions with a sport theme or taking place in a sport setting, addressing health issues such as HIV/AIDS, conflict and natural disasters, immunization, and mental health
• Examines the lessons learned and generalizability of these projects to other countries or other public health issues.

Authors
Alan White is a professor of Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. David Conrad is a Consultant in Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council and Associate Member of the Centre for Men’s Health at Leeds Beckett University. Together they have previously edited two books for health professionals – Men's Health: How To Do It (published by Radcliffe in 2007) and Promoting Men's Mental Health (Radcliffe 2010). Professor White is currently evaluating the Premier League Health with the English Premier League, is part of the Evaluation team of the Fit Fans in Training initiative with the Scottish Premier League and has run a two season long health campaign with the Leeds Rhino’s Rugby League team. He has recently headed up the completion of the ‘State of Men’s Health in Europe Report’ for the European Commission.