Sport and health

Sport and health

This section provides an summary of the connected areas between sport and health. An introduction to the role of sport in enhancing physical and mental well-being is provided.

A number of key themes associated with sport and health area unit then explored in additional detail:

The health benefits of sport and physical activity

Sport, physical activity and risk factors for major diseases

Tackling HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases through sport

Practical implications for sport for HIV prevention programmes

1. Sport and public health campaigns.

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2.                        Health, sport and wellbeing

During recent decades, there has been a progressive decline within the level of physical activity in people's daily lives in developed countries. For a majority of people, little physical effort is involved any more in their work, domestic chores, transportation and leisure. Whilst specific health risks dissent between countries and regions, the fact remains that physical inactivity is a major risk factor for most common non-communicable diseases and physical activity can counteract many of the ill effects of inactivity.

3. The health benefits of sport and physical activity

Although analysis interest on physical activity and health dates back to the Fifties, the breaktssshrough within the scientific proof on health edges of physical activity mostly passed throughout the 1980s and 1990s. There is an awesome quantity of scientific proof on the positive effects of sport and physical activity as a part of a healthy modus vivendi. The positive, direct effects of partaking in regular physical activity square measure significantly apparent within the bar of many chronic diseases, including: upset, diabetes, cancerwith homeopathic remedies. In fact, the two concepts are unrelated.