Browsing Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest by Subject "Health promotion"

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    • Health promoting sports clubs in practice: a controlled evaluation of the GAA Healthy Club Project 

      Lane, Aoife; Murphy, Niamh; Regan, Colin; Callaghan, David (MDPI, 2021-04-30)
      Sport is a developing setting and a relevant system in health promotion but there are few examples of settings-based initiatives and systems thinking in sport. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Healthy Club Project ...

    • Health promoting sports federations: theoretical foundations and guidelines 

      Van Hoye, Aurélie; Geidne, Susanna; Vuillemin, Anne; Dowd, Kieran; Gilbo, Iva; Heck, Sandra; Ibsen, Bjarne; Johnson, Stacey; Kingsland, Melanie; Kokko, Sami; Lane, Aoife; Ooms, Linda; Overbye, Marie; Woods, Catherine; Zeimers, Geraldine; Whiting, Stephen; Winand, Mathieu (Frontiers, 2023-07-11)
      Background: Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted that the potential for organized sports to promote health has been underexploited. Sports clubs have limited capacity to promote health due to their voluntary ...

    • A healthy sports club initiative in action in Ireland. 

      Lane, Aoife; Murphy, Niamh; Donohoe, Alex; Regan, Colin (Sage, 2020-02-10)
      Objective: The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is part of the cultural fabric of Irish society with a club in almost every community nationwide. The aim of this project was to carry out a pilot evaluation of the GAA ...

    • Implementation of the GAA 'healthy clubs project' in Ireland: a qualitative study using the consolidated framework for implementation research. 

      Van Hoye, Aurélie; Regan, C.; Lane, Aoife; Vuillemin, Anne (Oxford University Press, 2024)
      The sports clubs’ role in promoting health has been acknowledged by policy makers and researchers, but there is little evidence on how sports clubs implement health-related interventions. The present article investigates ...

    • Testing cost containment of future healthcare with maintained or improved quality - The COSTCARES project 

      Swedberg, Karl; Cawley, Desmond; Ekman, Inger; Rogers, Heather L.; Antonic, Darijana; Behmane, Daiga; Björkman, Ida; Britten, Nicky; Buttigieg, Sandra C.; Beyers, Vivienne; Börjesson, Mats; Corazzini, Kirsten; Fors, Andreas; Granger, Bradi; Joksimoski, Boban; Lewandowski, Roman; Sakalauskas, Virgilijus; Srulovici, Einav; Törnell, Jan; Wallström, Sara; Wolf, Axel; Lloyd, Helen M. (Wiley, 2021)
      Background: Increasing healthcare costs need to be contained in order to maintain equality of access to care for all EU citizens. A cross-disciplinary consortium of experts was supported by the EU FP7 research programme, ...