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Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus: Pushing Global Boundaries
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Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus: Pushing Global Boundaries
Current price: $130.00
Barnes and Noble
Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus: Pushing Global Boundaries
Current price: $130.00
Size: Hardcover
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By exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers previous research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a "tool." Readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health aided by the diverse chapters using an overarching eco (ecological/environmental), bio(biological), psycho (psychological), social (sociological) lens. Many of the chapters will include case-studies which consider developing leisure and health themes, particularly in relation to a number of emerging environmental, health and societal challenges that confront the world.
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The book will be of significant interest to researchers/academics/practitioners in the leisure, health, sport, tourism, recreation, events, social science and arts disciplines.