Football and Health Improvement: an Emergent Field

by Daniel Parnell (Editor), Andy Pringle (Editor)

There is developing interest in the use of sporting settings as a channel to connect people to health improvement services and an emerging body of research highlights football as being associated with positive motivational and social elements that support the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle. This text provides insights into a range of issues surrounding the role of football as a vehicle for health improvement for different groups.
The contributors to this volume share some of the challenges and the benefits of using professional football settings as a channel for connecting people to health improvement opportunities. These chapters will be of interest to a range of stakeholders involved in research, policy and practice who stand to benefit from building partnerships with colleagues with expertise in (I) conducting evaluation and (II) reporting evaluation and research outcomes in peer-reviewed mediums, reflecting the value of partnerships between football-led health improvement and evaluators. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer & Society .

106 pages, Hardcover

Published October 18, 2016

About the author

Daniel Parnell is Senior Lecturer in Business Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Dan’s research is across three areas; policy and politics, management, and change (individual, community and organisational), across elite sport. He currently works with a number of professional sport clubs and national governing bodies in England and internationally. He has worked with several English Premier League and Football League Clubs, the Premier League, Football League, and the Football Foundation. - Amazon