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Educating the Student Body
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Educating the Student Body

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find w...

Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health

This is a textbook which clearly defines the intersection of exercise science and public health. It offers a solid introduction to the concepts of public health and exercise science, the techniques used to measure physical activity and the health effects of exercise and physical activity.

Foundations of Kinesiology: A Modern Integrated Approach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Foundations of Kinesiology: A Modern Integrated Approach

Murray/Eldridge/Kohl's FOUNDATIONS OF KINESIOLOGY: A MODERN INTEGRATED APPROACH helps you explore potential career opportunities as well as sharpen the skills you will need as a professional in personal training, occupational and physical therapy, athletic training, sports psychology or sports management. The text equips you with a solid foundation in basic Kinesiology as well as subdisciplines such as biomechanics, motor learning, exercise physiology and public health. It emphasizes the evolving and ever-changing career opportunities available working with individuals and populations across the lifespan--children, adolescents, adults and older adults--and in a variety of settings--work, leisure, transportation, home, schools, sport, fitness facilities and rehabilitation centers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Teaching Movement Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Teaching Movement Education

This book offers a perfect balance of knowledge base, pedagogy, and curriculum content, delivered with practical learning tools and activities, so you can help your students develop movement skills that foster healthful habits. Including engaging KinetiKidz characters that demonstrate technically correct form for 121 movement elements and that help children move more, feel good, and think better.

What's Wrong with Fat?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

What's Wrong with Fat?

What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health

This reference presents the Consensus Statement from the 1995 Conference on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health and the supporting papers presented by the experts assembled there.

Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States

Physical activity has far-reaching benefits for physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being for all segments of the population. Despite these documented health benefits and previous efforts to promote physical activity in the U.S. population, most Americans do not meet current public health guidelines for physical activity. Surveillance in public health is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific data, which can then be used for planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice. Surveillance of physical activity is a core public health function that is necessary for monitoring population engagement in physical activ...

The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to consider the politics of life and death, Auchter traces the story of how life and death and a clear division between the two is summoned in the project of statecraft. She argues that by letting ourselves be haunted, or looking for ghosts, it is possible to trace how statecraft relies on the construction of such a dichotomy. Three empirical cases offer fertile ground for complicating the picture often painted of memorialization: ...

Migration Miracle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Migration Miracle

Since the arrival of the Puritans, various religious groups, including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and Protestant sects, have migrated to the United States. The role of religion in motivating their migration and shaping their settlement experiences has been well documented. What has not been recorded is the contemporary story of how migrants from Mexico and Central America rely on religionÑtheir clergy, faith, cultural expressions, and everyday religious practicesÑto endure the undocumented journey. At a time when anti-immigrant feeling is rising among the American public and when immigration is often cast in economic or deviant terms, Migration Miracle humanizes the controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrantsÕ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Jacqueline Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertakingÑthe role of religion and faith in surviving the journey. Each year hundreds of thousands of migrants risk their lives to cross the border into the United States, yet until now, few scholars have sought migrantsÕ own accounts of their experiences.

Dying to Live
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Dying to Live

A compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly militaristic border enforcement policies under the guise of security, and local governments around the country are taking matters into their own hands, Dying to Live offers a timely confrontation to such prescriptions and puts a human face on the rapidly growing crisis. Moreover, it provides a valuable perspective on the historical geography of U.S./Mexico relations, and immigration and boundary enforcement, illustratin...