Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Sport and Public Health....Pages 3-27
How Can the Health System Benefit from Increasing Participation in Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity?....Pages 29-52
Sport as a Vehicle for Health Promotion (and More)....Pages 53-60
Public Health in Sporting Settings: A Gender Perspective....Pages 61-76
Sport and Public Health Partnership Working....Pages 77-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Time Out for Your Health: A Sports-Based Health Intervention Approach with American Football Teams....Pages 91-100
The Bristol Active Life Project: Physical Activity and Sport for Mental Health....Pages 101-115
Football 4 Peace: An Activity-Based Community Relations and Reconciliation Initiative....Pages 117-128
Resilience Enhancing Program for Youth Survivors of the Beslan School Hostage-Taking....Pages 129-137
Rotary International’s Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign....Pages 139-149
Sex and Sport: An Australian Rules Football-Based Chlamydia Screening Initiative....Pages 151-159
Skillz Kenya: An HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Initiative....Pages 161-171
A Golf Programme for People with Mental Health Problems....Pages 173-180
The Community Street Soccer Program....Pages 181-188
Promoting Mental Well-being in Rugby League Communities....Pages 189-199
Slum Soccer: Female Empowerment Through Football....Pages 201-209
Fighting for Peace: From the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Beyond....Pages 211-230
Millwall FC Medical Service: ‘No One Likes Us, We Do Care’—Working Together for Better Health in South London....Pages 231-240
Sport as a Post-Disaster Psychosocial Intervention for Children in Bam, Iran....Pages 241-249
Football Fans in Training: A Weight Management and Healthy Living Programme for Men Delivered via Scotland’s Premier Football Clubs....Pages 251-260
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
The Stanford Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial (SPORT)....Pages 261-267
It’s a Goal: A Football-Based Mental Health Programme....Pages 269-277
Promoting Healthy Physical Activity and Nutrition in a Low Socioeconomic Status Community: A University-Australian Rules Football Collaborative Model....Pages 279-290
“Manning Up for Men’s Health”: Sports Radio and the INTEGRIS Men’s Health University, Oklahoma, USA....Pages 291-296
‘Quit Smoking with Barça’: An Initiative of the European Commission’s ‘Ex-Smokers Are Unstoppable’ Campaign....Pages 297-307
Conclusion: The Next Steps....Pages 309-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-324