The 1991 paper, "Physical education's role in public health" described the importance of physical education in addressing public health problems. On its 20th anniversary, this article reviews accomplishments in improving the health impact of physical education and identifies areas lacking progress. Major accomplishments include development of evidence-based programs, documentation of health and...

This dissertation adopts document-data method, comparative analysis method and Inductive deductive method to analyze main factors influencing college students’ physical and mental health from physical health education perspective. It elaborates the significance of physical health education and put up ”health first” guideline for promoting health knowledge and cultivate sports skills, creating f...

In the recent decade, a decline in physical activity and beginning of a sedentary lifestyle among college students has been observed. Sedentary lifestyle and overweight issues are major public health, clinical, and economical problems in modern societies. The purpose of the study was to find out anthropometric measurements, body composition variables and somatotype differences in college level ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate mental health status in physical education teachers (pet) and non-physical education teachers (npet) based on demographic characteristics. 403 teachers consisting of 105 pets and 298 npets from west azerbaijan province were selected by multiphase cluster sampling method and completed mental health inventory (mhi). the results of the study reve...

On a national ministerial announcement concerning employing specialist Physical Education (PE) teachers to teach PE in early childhood education (as opposed generalist teachers), this research sought investigate teachers’ views on issue. Taking Lawson's (1983) theory of occupational socialization as sensitizing framework, we examined whether teachers' specialization and experiences participatio...