Healthy stadia: an insight from policy to practice

Parnell, Daniel; Curran, Kathryn; Philpott, Matthew

doi:10.1080/17430437.2016.1173914

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“…Research has emerged on the evidence of how football can support the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of a range of diseases across the lifespan (Bangsbo, Krustrup, and Dvorak 2014). More recently, a further collection on stadia-based interventions offered insights into the role of community football interventions (Parnell, Curran, and Philpott 2016).…”

Section: Football and Health Improvement Gathering Momentummentioning

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Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

Parnell

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Bailey³

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Sport in Society

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Our current understanding is that football is a popular intervention option and can offer valuable health improvement programme success. This includes interventions delivered by professional football clubs and their respective in the community programmes, as well as other sports clubs organizing recreational football and Football Fitness, which is small-sided football training rather than competitive 11v11 matches. This article seeks to communicate an understanding of the role of football in physical health improvement using research, grey literature and policy documentation undertaken predominantly across the UK and Europe. The core themes that emerge from the review include the following health conditions and behaviours: overweight and obese, cardiovascular disease and lifestyle-related diseases; and the following target groups: children and young people, men, women and older adults, including Black, minority and ethnic groups. The evidence supports the health effects of football for these conditions and behaviours across the lifespan through controlled interventions and through community-based football programmes. The article concludes with a number of practical implications to improve the effectiveness of football-led physical health interventions.

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Section: Football and Health Improvement Gathering Momentummentioning

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Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

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“…The standout positive area of alignment is the additionality of professional sport and its contribution to commercial, community and economic regeneration aims. Whether this be due to the kudos, prestige or professionalism of the clubs, the players and/or the stadia, the close association of professional sport attracts multiple and heterogeneous communities (Morgan et al., 2017; Parnell et al., 2017; Pringle and Sayers, 2004; Spaaij et al., 2013). This is illustrated by the two stadia being used by young people not in employment, education or training, adults with a disability, substance misuse or mental health issues, and pensioners.…”

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“…This finding in itself justifies the interest in community stadia as there are few other building types that successfully engage such diverse and ‘hard to reach’ communities. Learning also from the ‘Healthy Stadia’ phenomenon (Drygas et al., 2013; Parnell et al., 2017), community stadia offer the opportunity for other service types (e.g. public and mental health, education, youth, and employment and benefits services) to revise their opinions of professional sports stadia and consider co-locating their community-facing services in stadia to benefit from the additionality of professional sport.…”

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The emergence and conceptualisation of community stadia in the UK

McTier

2020

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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New professional sports stadia have been widely advanced as flagship developments that can generate jobs and wealth, support place branding and culture-led strategies, and host mega-events. Public funding for new stadia has been secured on these bases but also challenged as stadia costs are under-estimated and the benefits, particularly for lower income communities, exaggerated. Emerging in this context, community stadia are an intriguing phenomenon as they offer the potential for professional sports stadia to deliver on community aims alongside their sporting, commercial and economic development aims. Public funding has followed with a number of community stadia built or planned in the UK, yet with limited critical analysis of the stadium type and its impact. This paper helps to fill the literature gap by learning from two community stadia case studies: The Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster and The Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk. It finds that community stadia have the potential to deliver across the four aims, with stadia’s association with the world of professional sport facilitating engagement with multiple, diverse and ‘hard to reach’ communities. However, they are also complex phenomena leading the paper to construct a 12-feature conceptualisation of community stadia that can advance practitioner and academic understanding of the phenomenon.

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“…The European Healthy Stadia Network (also known as "Healthy Stadia") was formed during the 2000s by several sports stadiums in the United Kingdom that were implementing public health programs and policies to improve the health of players, fans, and surrounding community members. This movement was later funded by the EU's public health programme and formally established Healthy Stadia with the purpose of advocating and providing resources, for sports stadia to become environments that promote health [10]. One of Healthy Stadia's major efforts is advocating for stadiums to become totally smoke-free [11].…”

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The Adoption, Implementation, and Impact of Smoke-Free Policies among Gaelic Athletic Association Clubs in Ireland: A Qualitative Study

Seitz

Lawless

Cahill

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is a major stakeholder in promoting smoke-free policies in Ireland. Several GAA clubs have adopted smoke-free policies, and there is a growing interest among other GAA clubs to also become smoke-free. As such, the purpose of this study is to explore the process of how GAA clubs adopt, implement, and enforce smoke-free policies in order to discover best practices that other clubs could replicate. Representatives from 15 smoke-free clubs were interviewed regarding how their club became smoke-free. Interview data were analyzed, in which four major themes emerged: (1) process (planning a smoke-free policy, communicating the policy to the community, providing smoking cessation resources), (2) barriers (opinions and behaviors of club members who smoke, bars connected to club houses, policy exceptions, visitors and umpires who were unaware of the policy), (3) enforcement (community-based style of enforcement, non-confrontational approach, non-enforcement), and (4) impact (observation of policy compliance and decrease in cigarette litter). The study’s findings indicate a general ease of becoming smoke-free with minimal barriers. As such, the GAA should urge each club to become smoke-free and to use the effective methods used by current smoke-free clubs for communicating and enforcing smoke-free policies.

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Healthy stadia: an insight from policy to practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

The emergence and conceptualisation of community stadia in the UK

The Adoption, Implementation, and Impact of Smoke-Free Policies among Gaelic Athletic Association Clubs in Ireland: A Qualitative Study

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