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Healthy Leisure and Leisureful Health: Introductory ‘State of the Art’

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Health is a complex phenomenon, analogous to which leisure can also be considered as holistic: It affects our physical, mental and emotional well-being (health), promotes social integration, socialises, educates, exercises an effect on balancing sexual energies, it can be the means of expressing our identity, and its performance is connected to our natural and built environment.

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  1. Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Health Promotion, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Zsuzsanna Benkő

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  1. Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Zsuzsanna Benkő

  2. India International Institute of Social Sciences, Jaipur, India

    Ishwar Modi

  3. Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Klára Tarkó

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Benkő, Z. (2017). Healthy Leisure and Leisureful Health: Introductory ‘State of the Art’. In: Benkő, Z., Modi, I., Tarkó, K. (eds) Leisure, Health and Well-Being. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33257-4_1

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