Unequal impacts of universal health policies: a systems-oriented view of physical activity levels in response to COVID-19 ‘lockdowns’

Authors Tessa Strain, Miriam Alvarado, Flora Jackson, Leandro Garcia, Michael P Kelly, and Paul Kelly Purpose of this blog The COVID-19 pandemic saw whole population health protection policies, such as containment strategies or vaccine roll-outs, implemented in many countries at an unprecedented scale. Sometimes these policies were enshrined in law, sometimes they were public health […]

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The importance of a good relationship with policy makers for sport injury prevention

By James Brown (@jamesbrown06)   The best houses are built on the best foundations The contemporary field of injury prevention has broadened its focus from purely epidemiological to include social science evaluation tools over the past five years. For example, the RE-AIM framework has now become accepted as a injury prevention programme evaluation tool [1] […]

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The Couch is a Killer–getting our population to sit less and move more

Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series)  By Drs. Andrew Murray (@docandrewmurray) and David White (@rightwhite1) Health systems worldwide need to think differently. Fancy new medications and rescue helicopters may help once people become unwell, but the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study highlights that over 70% of disease burden in the UK is caused […]

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