Title Details: | |
Physical Activity and Active Movement of Employees as a mean of Improving and Promoting Health |
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Other Titles: |
Physical Activity and Quality of Life: Good Practices |
Authors: |
Trigonis, Ioannis Karakatsanis, Konstantinos Papacharisis, Vasileios |
Subject: | MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > SPORT AND ATHLETIC SCIENCE / PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > SPORT AND ATHLETIC SCIENCE / PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE > SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > SPORT AND ATHLETIC SCIENCE / PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE > PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > SPORT AND ATHLETIC SCIENCE / PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE > COMPANY SPORTS / CORPORATE ATHLETICS MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > SPORT AND ATHLETIC SCIENCE / PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE > OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICINE > PUBLIC HEALTH > PREVENTIVE MEDICINE > PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES > HEALTH PROMOTION LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE > PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > PSYCHOLOGY > EXERCISE AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGY > RECREATION AND LEISURE |
Keywords: |
Corporate Fitness
Health Promotion Physical activity and health Quality of Life Health Indicators Productivity Built Environment Active Commuting Exercise and Employees Fitness and Recreation Leisure Time |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
This book deals with work sports programs aimed at employees to increase physical activity and ultimately promote health. It analyzes ways and practices that can motivate employees to adopt healthy lifestyles, such as active commuting to and from work, increasing physical activity in free time, and improving eating habits. Such changes can bring about significant changes in the quality of life, increase life expectancy, and reduce costs of hospitalization and rehabilitation of injuries related to a sedentary lifestyle. At the same time, a lifelong change in the above habits can also motivate the children of workers to increase their physical activity, which many studies show is imperative. At the same time as the type of programs analyzed in the book, detailed reference is made to how they are implemented and applied in the work environment and outside it, as well as the tools for evaluating and redefining the programs' goals. Typical examples of intervention are given for each type of work, with the particularities it presents, and the appropriate exercise program for these population groups is proposed each time. Also, all the tools that a health and exercise specialist can use are presented in detail, as well as several good practices that can increase employees' participation in similar workplace actions. The students will acquire the appropriate knowledge to be able to propose each time both the personalized exercise program and to implement the necessary interventions to reduce the risk of injuries. It also elaborates on how modern cities can become more resident and visitor-friendly by making changes to the built environment to encourage active walking or cycling, bringing about changes in lifestyle and quality of life. Adopting lifelong habits such as walking and cycling can dramatically improve citizens' fitness and well-being and reduce the health risks of inactivity. The book presents all the interventions to make cities friendlier, and more pleasant to live in, to serve people and not stress them and make it difficult for them in everyday life. Conceptual elements and characteristics of the built environment that influence people's need for physical activity and living in more sustainable cities are also presented. The spaces that offer the conditions for physical activity are analyzed and the elements that make up the relationship between the built environment and physical activity are presented. The goal is always one. Cities should serve people and offer a better quality of life.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Iordanidou, Dossy |
Graphic Editors: |
Kalogera, Andriani P. |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 01-06-2023 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-008-9 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-239 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9626 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Trigonis, I., Karakatsanis, K., & Papacharisis, V. (2023). Physical Activity and Active Movement of Employees as a mean of Improving and Promoting Health [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-239 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Health promotion in the work environment 2. Profile of employees in sports programs and record their preferences, opinions, wants and needs regarding work sports 3. Employee benefits from participating in sports activities at their workplace 4. Business profits from the implementation of health programs and sports activities for employees 5. Legislative framework and government manipulations 6. Policies that reduce major health risks 7. Active movement as a measure to promote workers' health 8. The bicycle as a means of transportation and recreation 9. The inhibiting factors of active movement 10. Structured environment and physical activity 11. Infrastructure and network security 12. The benefits of active movement and physical activity and the risks of an inactive life 13. Intervention programs and incentives to promote active movement and physical activity |
Number of pages |
220 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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