Physical Activity and Sport: Health Benefits and Contribution to Public Health
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 3629
Special Issue Editors
Interests: scientist studying fitness and injury prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Within the area of physical activity and sport, we can find a relationship between the benefits they bring to health and how this affects public health. This area of sports science is in continuous growth due to the rapid progress of the scientific community. This advance in the health benefits of physical activity and sports has repercussions for the whole of society, not just athletes.
Research in the field of health related to physical activity focuses on the comparison of the sedentary population with the active population, childhood obesity, economic savings in health with physical activity programs in adults, the relationship of high performance with physiological indicators and training load, etc.
Even though the scientific literature on the relationship between physical activity and health is extensive and continuously evolving, there are still research problems where current results are controversial. On many occasions, it may be due to the variety of the sample (children, adults, elite athletes, amateur athletes, the elderly) and the difficulty of the transversality of the results.
We are pleased to invite you to this Special Issue that relates physical activity and sports to health, the improvement and validity of the studies developed in different contexts and ages, as well as gender. In addition, the relationship between mental health and physical activity is a current issue.
This Special Issue aims to participation of established national and international references in the fields of sports science, psychology, education and health. It seeks to generate multiple contexts, understanding that the practice of sport and physical activity is a healthy habit that can favor progress at a therapeutic and preventive level based on the promotion of healthy lifestyles. For this, it is necessary to specify the scientific objectives for different contexts, improve the instruments related to data analysis, and look for studies that can be transversal in our field of knowledge.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the health area related to physical activity and sport;
- Validation studies of existing intervention tools or programs;
- Experimental or quasi-experimental studies that relate high performance to health markers;
- Studies that compare the effect of physical activity in populations with disease;
- Cross-sectional studies for the cultural adaptation of physical activity according to the country;
- Studies on intervention programs that prevent health problems in children.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sergio González-Espinosa
Dr. David Mancha-Triguero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disease prevention
- health
- physical activity
- mental health
- childhood diseases
- elderly diseases
- high-performance athletes
- injury recovery
- sports training methods
- health markers
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