Sport participation is well known to promote health outcomes for children and adolescents.
Nevertheless, there is insufficient evidence about the psychological and social outcomes of …

Background National policy approaches to physical activity (PA) promotion and sedentary
behaviour (SB) reduction are needed to address rising rates of non-communicable …

Background Evidence on current, national physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour
(SB) policies is limited. We, therefore, analysed availability, comprehensiveness …

Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what
this trend actually means? Everybody–including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs …

Depression has received increasing attention as a significant public health issue over the
past ten years, both in Canada and elsewhere in the industrialized west. During the same …

We drew on Foucault's notion of 'practices of the self'to examine how young people take up,
negotiate, and resist the imperatives of a public health discourse concerned with the …

Despite political change over the past 25 years in Britain there has been an unprecedented
national policy focus on the social determinants of health and population‐based approaches …

This paper examines how contemporary understandings of 'health'and 'care'are engaged
with and practiced by women with disordered eating. Based on findings from an Australian …

In modern Western society, women commonly encounter media that conflates appearance
and health. However, this phenomenon is seldom explored qualitatively from the …

While previous studies have investigated online health communities and health-seeking
behaviours, less attention has been directed at the growing impact of the online fitness …