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The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity

The Perspective of the Health System

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Enrico Michelini

    1. TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  • Study in the field of social sciences

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-11
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  2. Introduction

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 13-17

  3. Literature Review

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 19-34

  4. Theoretical Framework

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 35-94

  5. Methodology

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 95-135

  6. Empirical Analysis of the Case Studies

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 137-171

  7. Concluding Remarks

    • Enrico Michelini
    Pages 173-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-210
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About this book

Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion. This is the main result of the present analysis of national strategies for the promotion of physical activity issued by the health ministries of France, Germany, and Italy. All these health-strategies are rather ambiguous on this subject: They mention sport systematically as an abstract term, but they marginalise it as a medium of health in its traditional-competitive form. As a consequence, while sport has generally been considered healthy over a long period in the past, most health organisations today recommend only moderate physical activity as conducive to good health. The author examines this paradigmatic change in the international discussion about the forms of health-enhancing physical activity through a theoretical framework based on Luhmann’s systems theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Enrico Michelini

About the author

Enrico Michelini did his doctorate in sport science at the University of Tübingen and in cotutelle with the University of Turin. He is currently a Postdoc at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science of the TU Dortmund.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity

  • Book Subtitle: The Perspective of the Health System

  • Authors: Enrico Michelini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08188-1

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-08187-4Published: 04 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-08188-1Published: 20 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Comparative Politics

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