The health promoting sports coach: theoretical background and practical guidance
The sports club setting is a key context for health promotion, but it can also be associated with risky behaviours. Sports coaches play a crucial role in supporting the physical,…
Health promoting sports federations: theoretical foundations and guidelines
Background Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted that the potential for organized sports to promote health has been underexploited. Sports clubs have limited capacity to promote health due to their voluntary…
Health promoting sports clubs: from theoretical model to logic model
This article describes a logic model for health promoting sports clubs (HPSC), informed by a settings-based approach. It demonstrates how each of the seven levels of the HPSC model can…
Health promotion interventions in sport clubs: can we talk about a setting-based approach? A systematic mapping review
Many researchers and authorities have recognized the important role that sports clubs can play in public health. In spite of attempts to create a theoretical framework in the early 2000’s,…