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Sports clubs as settings for health promotion: fundamentals and an overview to research.
2014
This paper explores the efficacy and value of sports clubs as a setting for health promotion. Sports clubs for children and adolescents are the primary focus of the paper, and the aims are two-fold. Aims: Firstly, the paper aims to review the basis for and elements of the health promoting sports club (HPSC) concept. Secondly, the aim is to overview the international evolution of the HPSC concept and its usefulness in the research. The settings-based health promotion approach forms the basis for the HPSC concept and it is introduced first. Thereafter, both obligating and prospecting factors, to justify the importance for sports clubs to address health promotion, are expressed. Major prospec…
Kontiolahtelaisten nuorten toiveet kunnan liikuntapaikoista ja -palveluista
2017
Lauri Kontkanen (2017). Kontiolahtelaisten nuorten toiveet kunnan liikuntapaikoista ja - palveluista. Liikuntapedagogiikan pro gradu -tutkielma. Liikuntatieteellinen tiedekunta. Jyväskylän yliopisto, 68 s, 1 liite. Tausta. Pro gradu -tutkielman tavoitteena oli tutkia nuorten liikuntapaikka ja -palvelutoiveita Kontiolahdella. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin, mitkä ovat nuorten eniten harrastamat liikuntalajit, ja missä liikuntaseuroissa he liikkuivat. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin liikunnan harrastamisen esteitä. Tutkimukseni on jatkoa syksyllä 2013 valmistuneelle Kontiolahden liikuntapaikkasuunnitelmalle, jonka sain kunnalta tehtäväksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa on tarkoitus syventää tietoa last…
Litoral Mediteráneo : el nivel de satisfacción turístico en la provincia de Valencia
2019
Se evalúa el nivel de satisfacción en turistas y visitantes de Canet d’en Berenguer, Cullera y Oliva, municipios pertenecientes a la provincia de Valencia en la Comunidad Valenciana, España, mediante una encuesta de satisfacción que se aplicó a 669 individuos. También, de forma abreviada, se presenta la oferta turística de estos destinos turísticos, basados en datos del año 2017, donde se evidencia preferencia por los destinos turísticos de playa, con una marcada presencia de turistas nacionales que desarrollan actividades familiares. Además, se comprueba que el nivel de satisfacción con los destinos es elevado, con intensión de volver, incluso en períodos hiemales. Se recomienda la incorpo…
Social integration in sports clubs: individual and organisational factors in a European context
2019
Sports clubs are often perceived as important mediums for social integration, but the empirical evidence to support this claim is limited. This article sets out to identify individual and organisational characteristics that are conducive to social integration of members and volunteers. Drawing on survey data from 13,000 members and volunteers in ten European countries, an exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of social integration. They match the overall conceptual distinction between socio-cultural and socio-affective integration and the sub-division of socio-affective integration into ‘interaction’ and ‘identification’. Multilevel regression analyses examined the relevan…
On the trail of local welfare innovations in rural Finland
2019
Final Draft In Finland, the rural areas have been most affected by the developments threatening the survival of the welfare state as well as by conflicting efforts to save it. However, there are rural communities that have—as a response to the mainstream policy emphasizing economic efficiency and individual responsibility—developed innovative solutions to secure their welfare. Based on a case study focusing on two of such communities, these local welfare innovations are a result from a combination of external causes and local resources including the sense of community and a diverse enough community structure. The authors argue that in the context of welfare policy, the promotion of local we…
Clubs de convergence et effets de débordements géographiques : une analyse spatiale sur données régionales européennes, 1980-1995
2007
Our article offers an econometric model of spatial interactions for the empirical analysis of growth in European regions over the period 1980-1995. The model detects spatial spillover effects and makes it possible to take account of the European economy’s strong polarization. More specifically, by factoring in both spatial autocorrelation and spatial heterogeneity, we characterize the economic polarization pattern in European regions, identify convergence clubs, and model them as spatial regimes. We estimate a two-regime model with spatially autocorrelated errors and show that the convergence process differs between the two regimes. We find a strongly significant spatial spillover effect : …
The three wives problem and Shapley value
2015
We examine the Talmudic three wives problem, which is a generalization of the Talmudic contested garment problem solved by Aumann and Maschler (1985) using coalitional procedure. This problem has many practical applications. In an attempt to unify all Talmudic methods, Guiasu (2010, 2011) asserts that it can be explained in terms of “run-to-the-bank”, that is, of Shapley value in a “cumulative game”. It can be challenged because the coalitional procedure yields the same result as the nucleolus, which corresponds to a “dual game”. As Guiasu's solution is paradoxical (it has all the appearances of truth), my contribution consists in explaining the concepts, particularly truncation, that play …
Coaches’ perceptions of French sports clubs: Health-promotion activities, aims and coach motivation
2014
Background: Given the benefits of participating in sport, sports clubs have been recognised as health-promoting organizations. To examine health-promotion activities in Finnish sports clubs, Kokko et al. developed a set of standards for health-promoting sports clubs (HPSC). Objective: The present study extends this line of research, by (1) measuring coaches’ perceptions of health- promotion activities in French sports clubs and comparing them to earlier Finnish results, (2) measuring coaches’ perceptions of the health-promotion aims of sports clubs and (3) examining the links between HPSC and coaches’ self-determined motivation. Methods: Coaches ( N = 125) completed a modified version of th…
When even money can't buy - ice sports conditions in Oulu
2013
Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään nykyisen jäähallikapasiteetin riittävyyttä. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa selvitetään kuntaliitoksen vaikutusta jäähallien käyttäjiin sekä mahdollisuuksia lisätä ulkokaukaloiden käyttöä nykyisestä. Tutkimuksen kohderyhmänä on jäähallien asiakaskunta, eli urheiluseurat sekä rekisteröitymättömät ryhmät, kuten esimerkiksi työpaikkaryhmät ja puulaakijoukkueet. Perusjoukkona tutkimuksessa ovat kunnallisista jäähalleista ja Raksilan harjoitushallista vuoroja hakeneet tahot sekä harrastesarjoja pelaavat ryhmät (N=149). Tutkimusmenetelmä on survey-tutkimus. Nykyiset jäähalliolosuhteet eivät ole riittävät lasten ja nuorten liikuntaan ja urheiluun. Suurin osa urheiluseuroista …
Growth and convergence in Africa: The impact of spatial effects
2010
The aim of this paper is to study the impact of spatial effects on convergence process in Africa over the period 1975-2000. Taking into account these effects through the methodology of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial econometrics, we focus on the geographical dimension of economic convergence of African countries. This allows us to deal with spatial autocorrelation which is a consequence of econometric interdependences due to geographic spillovers. Indeed, countries economic performance hides specific geographical patterns providing information on the importance of location on economic dynamics. Our results prove the existence of convergence process in Africa through a …