Klaus Gebel - Böcker

The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health provides students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with a comprehensive reference work in the field of physical activity and health. This new and authoritative text covers essential current and emerging topics in physical activity and health in the areas of mechanisms, epidemiology, determinants, measurement, interventions, and policy.The handbook also delivers chapter specific practical recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. The Handbook details fundamental background information on the history and development of physical activity and health and its many benefits for population physical and mental health and specific clinical groups. It outlines the latest evidence of how effective physical activity interventions are, and how they contribute co-benefits in different sectors, including transport and community planning, sport, mitigating climate change and how benefits can be demonstrated through comprehensive evaluation, including economic evaluation. Physical activity and health is a broad and wide-reaching field that is relevant to many areas, including exercise and sport science, public health, urban and transport planning, occupational health and clinical medicine. The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health will be an essential resource for researchers, students, policy makers and other professionals in these and many other related disciplines.

This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe. Walking as a research area is multifaceted and this book presents chapters which synthesise the current state of research and practice, which will be of interest to readers, both academic and professional, and point to areas that will feature prominently in future research domains.Although the links between transport and health have long been recognised in the transport and health disciplines separately, it is a fairly recent phenomenon that they have been seen as a legitimate inter- and multi-disciplinary area. The areas of intersection have become more obvious with better understanding between the different disciplines with mutual and explicit understanding that great benefits come from recognising synergies between disciplinary approaches to similar problems. The connections between walking and health have benefited from a better understanding of the contributions of different disciplines.This book exploits this multidisciplinary approach.