The Gold Medal for Participation: A New Role for Sport
VicHealth Letter Issue No. 29 Autumn 2007
Despite sports of all kinds emerging over the last 50 years, we’ve seen a steep decline in the amount of time allocated to sport and physical activity. People are less active than they were, and this is playing havoc with our health. So wouldn’t it seem logical that the connection between sport and public health would be as tight as a rugby scrum? This issue explores some of the challenges of a public health/sport partnership. It also highlights some of the best examples of how sport is attracting more participants and promoting healthy environments.
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Physical Activity Fact Sheets
A range of Physical Activity Fact Sheets on Active Transport, Sport & Active Recreation, Children & Play, Obesity & Overweight.
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Lively Neighbourhoods: Inspirational Stories from Victoria's Walking School Buses
A Walking School Bus program can have far-reaching effects on the participants, the schools and the wider community. The success stories featured here all demonstrate in their own way the impact a Walking School Bus program has had on their community.
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A Sporting Chance: The Inside Knowledge on Healthy Sports Clubs
What do healthy sports clubs have in common? Regardless of the sport played, successful clubs have a long, strong history, a commitment to including others, and a family and social focus. They value and reward members, communicate and promote regularly, and have policies that cover all bases, from sun protection to healthy food choices. They provide a valuable service to the local community and give people a place to go for physical and social health.
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Parental Perceptions of Sports Injury Risk Project
The Parental Perceptions of Sports Injury Risk Project is an initiative of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) conducted by the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences (HMSS) at the University of Ballarat (UB).
With increasing numbers of children and adolescents in Australia becoming obese or overweight, encouraging physical activity behaviour in young people is an important health initiative.
One potential barrier to physical activity could be parental perceptions of sports injury risk. Parents may be reluctant to encourage children to participate in some sports because the sports are perceived as being inherently dangerous, or that the risk of injury is greater than in other activities.
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A Winning Game Plan: Creating Opportunities in Sport & Active Recreation
Through VicHealth's Active Participation Grants, communitybased organisations are funded for one to two years to work in partnership with a diverse range of organisations within their community to develop opportunities for people who would not normally participate in traditional sport or active recreation. This booklet showcases some of the inspiring projects funded by this program, from young refugees playing in a local basketball league through to older people going on organised walks in their local area. The stories show what individuals and organisations are doing to improve health and connect communities.
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School's Out, Get Active: Learnings from the Out of School Hours Sports Program
This publication summarises the findings from the evaluation of the Out of School Hours Sports Program. The evaluation was undertaken by the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences at the University of Ballarat in 2005. Prepared by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and VicHealth, the report is available so that those involved in school sport and recreation programs at the local level can give their programs every chance of success.
Following the successful pilot of the Out Of School Hours Sports Program, the ASC launched the Active After-School Communities program - a major component of the Australian Government’s Building a Healthy, Active Australia package, aimed at tackling the growing problem of declining physical activity and poor eating habits of Australian children.
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A Growing Concern (Children & Physical Activity)
VicHealth Letter, Issue No. 24 Summer 2005
What do the leading researchers think? What does the latest research tell us about children and physical activity? What input can children have to influence their own environment? And what role can parents and families play?
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A Basic Guide to Creating Healthy Environments
Includes strategies for smoke-free environments, responsible serving of alcohol, inclusion and participation, sun-protection, healthy food choices and more.
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Potential Approaches to the Promotion of Physical Activity
A review of the literature by Jo Salmon, Rachel Breman, Michael Fotheringham, Kylie Ball, Caroline Finch: Deakin University, School of Health Sciences
October 2000
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