Football As Medicine - Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion

Summary

What are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health? This is the first book to focus on football in the context of health, from individual, public and population-level perspectives. It examines the effects of football training on the three main types of fitness and on specific target populations.

Product details

• Authors: Peter (University of Southern Denmark Krustrup, Peter Parnell Krustrup
• Assisted by: Peter Krustrup (Editor), Krustrup Peter (Editor), Daniel Parnell (Editor), Parnell Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367248888
• ISBN: 978-0-367-24888-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Critical Research in Football
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, MEDICAL / Sports Medicine, Personal & public health, Sports training & coaching, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), Sports training and coaching, Personal and public health / health education