Health promotion can be understood in different ways in relation to sport, and this Special Issue aims to explore this relation in-depth. The objective of this Special Issue is to better understand how the sport sector can act (through interventions, events, initiatives, policies) as a health-promoting setting.
The World Health Organization (WHO, 1986) has defined Health promotion as the process of enabling organizations or individuals to take control over their health and their determinants.
In the present Special Issue, we consider sport in a broad sense, including both competitive and recreational sport, targeting all groups across the lifespan and socioeconomic gradient, including every-day and non-organized sport practice.
This Special Issue of IJERPH focuses on research such as:
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- Health-promoting settings-based approach to sport (HPSC-related research and research on how to change the core-business of sport in a health-promoting direction);
- Health promotion through sport (sport for health, sport for development, sport for social change, using sport as a tool for health promoting outcomes or sustainable development goals);
- Health promotion in sport (health promotion initiatives/interventions/events performed in sport, ex. using sports as an arena for health promotion programs);
- Health promotion in relation to emerging concepts within the field such as physical literacy, salutogenesis, social capital or other perspectives that could broaden our understanding of health promotion and sport.
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In this Special Issue, we invite researchers from different scientific disciplines, such as health promotion, sport management, sport sociology, sport pedagogy, and sport psychology, among others, to submit papers that combine or use diverse methods (qualitative, quantitative or mixed). Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.
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Keywords
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- Health promotion
- Sport
- Settings-based approach
- SDG
- Sport for development
- Events
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Special Issue Editors
Guest Editor
School of Health Sciences, Division of Sport Science, Örebro University, Örebro SE-701 82, Sweden
Interests: health promoting sports clubs; practice-based research; sustainable sport management
Assistant Guest Editor
APEMAC, University of Lorraine, Nancy 54000, France
Interests: physical activity interventions; health promoting sports clubs; physical activity policies
