Health promotion in sport: an analysis of peak sporting organisations' health policies.

摘要

Community settings have been identified as a key context for achieving health promotion objectives. In particular, the Ottawa Charter highlights the importance of settings in health promotion, whereby "health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work, play and love". Sports clubs have been proposed as providing an opportunity to embed health promotion into everyday activities. The concept of health promoting sports clubs extends the role of sport beyond the promotion and provision of opportunities for physical activity to other areas of public health. For example, sports clubs can be engaged to target healthful or high risk behaviours; the latter including smoking, excess sun exposure, unhealthy eating and discrimination. One mechanism through which sports clubs can promote health is through the development of healthy environments and organisational culture, including structural changes and policy implementation.