Tag: health promotion

Health promotion is concerned with understanding how health and well-being can be promoted. Research in this field addresses a broad range of issues related to health promotion practice. It is interdisciplinary and encompasses a variety of theoretical approaches as well as both qualitative and quantitative methods. An important aim is to generate knowledge and expertise to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of health-promoting interventions. The research focuses primarily on food and physical activity.

Denna avhandling i idrottsvetenskap utforskar hur fysisk aktivitet på recept (FaR) används som hälsofrämjande metod för barn i skolmiljö – en kontext där metoden hittills studerats i begränsad utsträckning. Avhandlingen bidrar med ny kunskap om hur skolbaserade hälsoinsatser kan utformas mer jämlikt, barncentrerat och långsiktigt hållbart. Genom att förena medicinska, sociologiska och pedagogiska perspektiv lyfts behovet av att utveckla mer rättighetsbaserade och barnsensitiva former av hälsofrämjande arbete.

Susanna Geidne is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Science and an Associate professor in Public Health with focus on Health promotion at the Division of Sport Science at Örebro University. She focuses on practice-based health promotion research with sports (in a broad sense) as an arena. This includes methodologically diverse research on for example health promoting sports clubs (HPSC).

JSHS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to the advancement of sport, exercise, physical activity, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Neurophysiological correlates of interference control and response inhibition processes in children and adolescents engaging in open- and closed-skill sports by Sebastian Ludyga, Manuel Mücke, Christian Andrä, Markus Gerber, Uwe Pühse.

JSHS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to the advancement of sport, exercise, physical activity, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Profiling elite male 100-m sprint performance: The role of maximum velocity and relative acceleration by Robin Healy, Ian C. Kenny, Andrew J. Harris.

JSHS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to the advancement of sport, exercise, physical activity, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the movement behaviors of children and youth: A scoping review of evidence after the first year by Derek C. Paterson, Katelynn Ramage, Sarah A. Moore, Negin Riazi, Mark S. Tremblay, Guy Faulkner.

JSHS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to the advancement of sport, exercise, physical activity, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Associations of accelerometer-determined physical activity and sedentary behavior with sarcopenia and incident falls over 12 months in community-dwelling Swedish older adults by David Scott, Jonas Johansson, Anoohya Gandham, Peter R. Ebeling, Peter Nordstrom, Anna Nordstroml.

JSHS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to the advancement of sport, exercise, physical activity, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Six high-intensity interval training sessions over 5 days increases maximal oxygen uptake, endurance capacity, and sub-maximal exercise fat oxidation as much as 6 high-intensity interval training sessions over 2 weeks by Muhammed M. Atakan, Yasemin Güzel, Süleyman Bulut, Şükran N. Koşar, Glenn K. McConell, Hüseyin H. Turnagöl.

This book will raise the voices of relevant and critical experiences carried out in a range of countries that belong to the ‘Global South’. More importantly, the book aims to highlight the practices and theories created by people who belong to the communities where these sporting experiences have been taking place in the past decades, whose critical reflections and experiences are yet to gain systematic attention in the international academic and practitioner’s communities in the English language.

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 is to better understand how the sport sector can act as a health-promoting setting. 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.