Physical activity and health is a wide-reaching field that is relevant to exercise and sport science, public health, urban and transport planning, occupational health, and clinical medicine. Accordingly, The Routledge Handbook on Physical Activity and Health is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in how physical activity can contribute to solving many health challenges of the 21st century.
Across 50 chapters, the Handbook provides fundamental background information on the history, biological mechanisms, and epidemiological evidence linking physical activity with physical and mental health. It also explores the ways to measure physical activity and key determinants of the behaviour across different socio-ecological levels of influence. It presents the latest evidence on the effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving physical activity in specific populations and contexts, and proposes how public health policies for physical activity can be developed, implemented, and evaluated.
The Routledge Handbook on Physical Activity and Health is an essential resource for researchers, students, policymakers, and other professionals in many disciplines, including sport, exercise and health, public health, environment, and planning.
Miranda E.G. Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Health at the University of Bath. She is a physical activity epidemiologist, and her research focuses on physical activity and health, particularly active travel, chronic disease, and population health. Her work has contributed to the UK Chief Medical Officer’s Physical Activity Guidelines.
Rona Macniven is Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Her research expertise is in physical activity, sport, well-being, falls prevention, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and public health epidemiology and evaluation.
Max J. Western is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Bath. His research focuses on motivation and behaviour change, exercise interventions for healthy and active ageing, and the use of digital tools to measure and support physical activity.
Klaus Gebel is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Performance, Rehabilitation and Population Health at the University of Technology Sydney. In his research, he mainly focuses on the relationship between urban design, physical activity, active transport, and health.
Adrian E. Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Sydney University, Australia, with over 30 years of experience in public health and physical activity research. His research includes physical activity epidemiology, surveillance and measurement research, evaluating community-wide interventions, and implementation science. He has contributed to physical activity policy translation, capacity building and training, and physical activity guideline development in several countries.
