- Title
- Building the health promotion capacity of sport and recreation organisations : A case study of Regional Sports Assemblies
- Creator
- Casey, Meghan; Payne, Warren; Eime, Rochelle
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/55490
- Identifier
- vital:3525
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13606710902752588
- Identifier
- ISSN:1360-6719
- Abstract
- Sport and recreation organisations are increasingly recognised by the health sector as key players for promoting health, particularly in terms of increasing population-wide physical activity levels. Developing the capacity of these organisations to influence health, however, is not understood. This research examined the efficacy of a system-wide, capacity-building strategy implemented to enable sporting organisations to change from a narrow focus on sport to one encompassing health promotion. This involved evaluating a state-wide health promotion programme funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and implemented within nine Regional Sports Assemblies (RSAs). The research method involved a web-based survey with all RSAs and in-depth interviews with four selected RSA Executive Officers. The results demonstrate that health promotion was successfully adopted within sport and recreation environments; however, they also highlight the need to understand the nature of existing organisational resource dependencies and interdependencies. The article discusses the design of organisational change interventions to support practitioners and policy-makers in health and sport management.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Managing Leisure Vol. 14, no. 2 (2009), p. 112-124
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1504 Commercial Services; 1506 Tourism; Organisational change; Organisational development; Capacity building; Physical activity
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