Integrating public health and sport management: Sport participation trends 2001–2010

The community and sport participation.

In an earlier paper (Khosla, 1968) it was observed that winning athletes (gold medallists) in many of the Olympic events at the Tokyo Olympiad in 1964 were much above the average heights of all participants in their events. In contrast, it was noted that competitors in a few events (boxing, wrestling, judo, and weightlifting) are matched on rigid weight standards, and because weight and height ...

Sport Entrepreneurship: A Recent Approach in Entrepreneurship and Sport Management

Innovation, creativity and change are the key elements and unavoidable factors in sport. The importance of this issue encourages us to study sport from the point of view of entrepreneurship. During the recent years, spreading the sport management and development of entrepreneurship have created a new frame work in sport in a way that a new approach has been appeared regarding sport management a...

Population levels of sport participation: implications for sport policy

BACKGROUND Participation in sport can contribute to health-enhancing levels of leisure-time physical activity. There are recent reports that participation in sport in Australia is decreasing. However, these studies are limited to ages 15 years and over. METHODS This study integrates sports club membership data from five popular team sports and investigates sport participation across the lifes...

New Trends of Doping in Sport

Sport and ageing: a systematic review of the determinants and trends of participation in sport for older adults

BACKGROUND The global population is ageing. As ageing is often associated with a decline in health, there is a need to further develop preventative health measures. Physical activity can positively influence older adults' (aged 50 years and older) health. Previous research on the relationship between physical activity and health for older adults has mainly focused on physical activity in genera...