Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy

TEW, Garry, COPELAND, Robert and TILL, S (2012). Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy. BMC Medicine (10), p. 74.

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Abstract

London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more active by 2012. This editorial highlights how specialists in Sport and Exercise Medicine can contribute towards increasing physical activity participation in the UK, as well as how the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine might be a useful vehicle for delivering an Olympic health legacy. Key challenges are also discussed such as acquisition of funding to support new physical activity initiatives, appropriate allocation of resources, and how to assess the impact of legacy initiatives.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Sport and Exercise Science
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-74
Page Range:	p. 74
Depositing User:	Rachel Davison
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2013 17:13
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 20:00
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6491

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