How Sport and Physical Activity Contribute to Healthy Lifestyle and Physical Fitness for Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health-Related Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the impact and implementation of physical activity interventions; the role of health care professionals in physical activity promotion; physical activity guidelines; health improvement and football community trusts; physical activity and older people; evaluating community physical activity interventions
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Interests: physical activity across the lifespan; health improvements; obesity; motor skills; motor competence; intervention design; the impact and implementation of physical activity interventions; evaluating physical activity and motor competence interventions; the role of health care professionals in physical activity promotion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Healthy Ageing Challenge aims for people to enjoy at least 5 extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035, while narrowing the gap between the experiences of the richest and poorest. Healthy Ageing identifies the importance of regular physical activity for the maintenance of good health and keeping physically active across the lifespan. Global physical activity guidelines highlight the benefits and the importance of helping all people to adopt and maintain regular physical activity participation throughout the life course. With those thoughts in mind, this Special Issue welcomes submissions that report both the benefits of sport and physical activity for health improvement and physical fitness for all groups. We encourage systematic and scoping reviews as well as original investigations and good-quality evaluation studies. We are especially interested in studies that investigate the impact of innovative sport and physical activity programmes that promote health and fitness, as well as those studies that explore the key implementation considerations when delivering interventions, including what worked, as well as what worked less well and why. Further, we welcome submissions reporting the methods and the outcomes from dialogue with key priority groups regarding their sport and physical activity preferences, and how these could/were met in the intervention design and delivery phase. Finally, we encourage early career researchers to consider submitting their research to this call.
We hope you will consider submitting to this Special Issue, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Clare or Andy if you have any questions.
Prof. Dr. Andy Pringle
Dr. Clare M.P. Roscoe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- healthy ageing
- health improvement
- physical fitness
- sport and physical activity programmes
- implementation considerations
- interventions evaluation
- public health
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