What is it about?
This paper explores the leisure/health nexus and focuses on identifying the connections between these concepts. There are competing understandings of ‘health’ that underpin leisure. Within these disciplines there are contrasting discussions involving biological, economic, environmental, historical, medical, political, psychological and sociological ways of constructing meaning. These discussions occur in the domains of bio-medical treatment and health promotion framed within embodiment and embodiment practice. The bio-medical domain frames ‘health’ as the prevention of disease/illness/injury and views ‘leisure’ as a tool through which to reduce risk.
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Why is it important?
While 21st century health promotion posits ‘health’ more holistically, ‘leisure’ still often focuses on issues related to individual’s physical ‘health’.
Perspectives
Leisure and health are complex concepts that exist within a system of ebbs and flows that impact each other in different ways depending on your point of view.
Dr Hazel Maxwell
University of Tasmania
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This page is a summary of: Leisure and health: conjoined and contested concepts, Annals of Leisure Research, October 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1682017.
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