Sport is widely recognised for the contribution it can make to international development goals. More specifically, the value of sport as a tool for development gained its impetus through the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The institutionalized relationship between sport and development has mainly focussed on sport-for-development (SfD) non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This study...

Background. Competitive sport has the potential for high levels of stress and anxiety that may affect performance and increase the risk of injuries. While benefits of pre-training assumption of N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are well known, poor data are available on Schisandra chinensis. Schisandra chinensis is a medicinal plant in use in Chinese medicine which increases physical working capa...

Measurement invariance of the Behavioural Regulation in Sport Questionnaire when completed by young athletes across five European countries Carme Viladrich, Paul R. Appleton, Eleanor Quested, Joan L. Duda, Saül Alcaraz, Jean-Philippe Heuzé, Priscila Fabra, Oddrun Samdal, Yngvar Ommundsen, Andrew P. Hill, Nikos Zourbanos & Nikos Ntoumanis a Department of Psychobiology and Methodology in Health S...

Limits to athletic performance have long been a topic of myth and debate. However, sport performance appears to have reached a state of stagnation in recent years, suggesting that the physical capabilities of humans and other athletic species, such as greyhounds and thoroughbreds, cannot progress indefinitely. Although the ultimate capabilities may be predictable, the exact path for the absolut...

health economists look towards health care sector as a market whereby there is a distinct demand and supply phenomenon exists. dearth of regulation of the doctors' practices lead to inappropriate and unjustifiable demand for health care among the patients. in developing and under-developed countries, this adverse practice may push a poor family into a vicious circle of poverty and illness, espe...

1 Sport Science, University e-Campus, Novedrate, Italy 2 Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sports Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sport, Tunis, Tunisia 3 Athlete Health and Performance Research Centre, ASPETAR, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar 4 Department of Medical Sciences, Sports Physiology Lab, University of Cagliari, Italy 5 Cen...

Globally, “integrity” has emerged as a critical concept for sport, with scholars, government agencies and NGOs proposing the establishment of “integrity systems”, comprising measures such new policy units, ombudsmen mediation services. The purpose this study is to assess coherence reform agenda, determine its core features gauge whether it constitutes governing paradigm departure from “professi...