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Understanding football as a vehicle for enhancing social inclusion: Using an intervention mapping framework
- Source :
- Social Inclusion, Sport for social inclusion: critical analyses and future challenges, Social Inclusion, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 158-166 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- It has been suggested that football and communities are inextricably linked. Healthy lifestyles are an important component in maintaining the sustainability of local communities, not least, because a convincing evidence base supports the holistic benefits that can be derived from health enhancing behaviours such as, regular physical activity. As such, efforts to promote health improvement through sport and physical activity include those interventions delivered in professional sporting settings. Johnman and colleagues1 have heralded sports clubs as important venues for the delivery of health improvement interventions for a range of groups across local communities. This includes health improvement activities delivered in professional football club community schemes. While exemplary practice shows how health improvement programmes can be implemented and evaluated, our experience and engagement with professional football club community schemes supports the notion that more needs to be undertaken to help clubs develop monitoring and evaluation strategies in order to assess the impact of their health improvement programmes. In our short communication, we share our plans for helping two professional football clubs develop their monitoring and evaluation strategies for their community health promotion programmes. Potential outcomes emerging from this process are two-fold. (I) To help club-community schemes in-build and sustain monitoring and evaluation practices within their future healthimprovement provision. (II) To use the impact and process outcomes emerging from programme evaluations, to successfully secure the necessary resources to sustain future health improvement activities for their local communities. Outcomes emerging from this study will be of interest to football clubs and evaluators alike, as they seek to develop evaluation strategies for their health improvement programmes.
- Subjects :
- football
Sociology and Political Science
municipality
partnership
Psychological intervention
Großbritannien
sports club
Football
Freizeitforschung, Freizeitsoziologie
Intervention mapping
Sportverein
Social integration
Sociology
Social science
health care economics and organizations
Sport
evaluation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Great Britain
social integration
Public relations
lcsh:Sociology (General)
General partnership
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste
Leisure Research
community
ddc:300
soziale Integration
social inclusion
Family Policy, Youth Policy, Policy on the Elderly
sports
Inclusion (education)
Gemeinde
research partnership
Social Psychology
education
lcsh:HM401-1281
Fußball
Partnerschaft
Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik
Intervention (counseling)
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
business.industry
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Monitoring and evaluation
soccer
ddc:360
inclusion
Familienpolitik, Jugendpolitik, Altenpolitik
Social problems and services
business
Inklusion
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18368808
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Inclusion, Sport for social inclusion: critical analyses and future challenges, Social Inclusion, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 158-166 (2015)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1a51dcc93009535a33b5a8c2972dea3