Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health (Routledge International Handbooks)

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 throu