Saturday 5 March 2016

Strasbourg hosts int’l colloquium on sport health link

STRASBOURG, March 4 (Xinhua) — The University of Strasbourg organized a colloquium on Friday on sport as a vehicle for better health and a tool in the battle against social and territorial inequality.

Following the “European Bases of Sport-Health” which gathered 500 elected doctors, students, and sanitary and social professionals in Strasbourg in 2015, the European capital welcomed 50 high-ranking European researchers on Friday. The experts debated the results of an unpublished sociological study, conducted in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, on the links between sport, health, and inequality.

Since 2012, a team connected to the sport and social sciences laboratory at the University of Strasbourg has been undertaking a European comparison program in order to better understand the modes of appropriation of health recommendations related to physical activity by families coming from six impoverished districts from the four countries involved. For the full article click here 



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