Health enhancing physical activity
The book is designed to be an overall presentation of health enhancing physical activity (HEPA) Its purpose is to provide most recent theoretical and practical evidence base for HEPA experts and actors in research, education, administration and service provision.
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Oxford, UK
Meyer & Meyer Sport
2004
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| Series: | Perspectives the multidisciplinary series of physical education and sport science
v. 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- What are the health effects of physical activity?
- Inactivity as a disease risk and health benefits of increased physical activity / Ilkka Vuori
- Health risks of physical activity / Barry Franklin and Paul Nagelkirk
- The public health potential of health enhancing physical activity / Adrian Bauman and Yvette Miller
- How much and what kind of physical activity for health?
- General dose-response issues concerning physical activity and health / William Haskell
- Frequency, duration, intensity and total volume of physical activity as determinants of health outcomes / Pekka Oja
- Life-style activity for health / Marie Murphy
- How active and fit are we for health?
- Assessment of health-enhancing physical activity: methodological issues / Barbara Ainsworth & Susan Levy
- Population levels and patterns of physical activity for health / Maria Daniel Vaz de Almeida
- How fit are we for health? / Pekka Oja
- How to promote health enhancing physical activity?
- Theoretical considerations for physical activity promotion / Glenn Brassington & Abby King
- Individual and small group interventions / Stuart Biddle
- How to promote health enhancing physical activity: community interventions / Nick Cavill & Charlie Foster
- Environmental influences on physical activity / Neville Owen, Nancy Humpel, Jo Salmon and Pekka Oja
- Policy intervention: the experience of Agita Sao Paolo in using 'mobile management' of the ecological model to promote physical activity / Victor Matsudo, Jose Guedes, Sandra Matsudo, Douglas Andrade, Timoteo Araujo, Luis Oliveira, Erinaldo Andrade, and Marcos Ribeiro.