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612.6 --- Children --- -Motor ability in children --- Physical fitness for children --- Motor development in children --- Child development --- Perceptual-motor learning --- Physical education for children --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Voortplanting. Groei. Ontwikkeling --- Growth --- Motor ability in children. --- Physical fitness for children. --- Exertion --- Growth. --- Physical fitness. --- In infancy and children. --- Motor ability in children --- Human growth --- Physical anthropology

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This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information extending from the earliest reaches of human history to the present day, arranged in the form of 30 thematic essays covering topics from the supposed idyll of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its posited health benefits to the evolution of health professionals and the possible contribution of the Olympic movement to health and fitness in our current society. Learning objectives are set for each topic, and although technical language is avoided as far as possible, a thorough glossary explains any specialized terms that are introduced in each chapter. The critical thinking of the reader is stimulated by a range of questions arising from the text context, and each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of some of the more important implications for public policies on health and fitness today and into the future. The material will be of particular interest to graduate and undergraduate students in public health, health promotion, health policy, kinesiology, physical education, but will be of interest also to many studying medicine, history and sociology.

Medicine. --- Health promotion. --- Sports sciences. --- Biology --- Education --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- History of Biology. --- Sport Science. --- History of Education. --- History. --- Biology-History. --- Education-History. --- Sport Science . --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- Health. --- Biology—History. --- Education—History. --- Sciences, Sports --- Sport sciences --- Physical education and training --- Science --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education

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This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.

Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- History of human medicine --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Social medicine --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- History --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- preventieve gezondheidszorg --- sport --- sportwetenschappen --- geneeskunde --- geschiedenis --- gezondheidspromotie --- sportgeneeskunde --- Prehistory

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Toxicology --- Air pollution. Air purification