Sports facilities in the UK are going through crisis and the Sports Council, the national organizing body, has determined the following priorities: (1) the rehabilitation of swimming pools built before the energy crisis and particularly those in schools; (2) the building of small local sports ...

As well as having many positive effects, sports activities can cause medical and surgical problems which are the especial concern of specialists in the orthopaedic, neurological, cardiological and pneumologic fields. However, sports medicine pays little attention to dermatological diseases,...

This research analysed the relationship between one of the largest amateur sports clubs in the world, the NCAA, and the whole complex of North American antitrust legislation. From a careful study of the inter-university sports phenomenon in the USA, it is obvious that the current state of...

The project described in the article was part of a recent graduation thesis. It urges a renewal of sports in Italy and reorganization of the ISEF, Institutions for Sports Education. The article is largely concerned with the third part of the thesis, the description of a plan for a university sports ...

Doping, or the use of substances or the adoption of medical practices not justified by pathological conditions but aimed to improve the competitive performance, represents a problem concerning not only sports ethics, but also and primarily the public health. The national conference "Health...

Since 2004, the Esternal Relations Office (ERO) of the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) has been providing distance training in Public Health, experimenting innovative learning models based on the integration between active learning methods such as Problem-Based Learning (PBL), originally ...

A survey was conducted on competitive sports with young athletes and on their knowledge level regarding doping. An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 159 young people ranging from 11 to 17 years. Results evidenced a positive attitude toward the practice of sports, which was considered by...

Various recent epidemiological studies underlined that the risk of infective diseases in sport is an underestimated community problem. In 1994 the International Rugby Football Board ranked as "low" the risk of infection in football players; despite that, however, it outlined good practice rules to...

Great geographical interest develops around the spatial repercussions induced by the exponential technological evolution; the latter undeniably contributes to overcome distances, which, however, come to amplify in some social and geographical contexts, as the long-standing issue of the digital...

The topics discussed at the conference are highlighted in this article, which include: activities of the antidoping surveillance commission; antidoping control and positive results for doping tests; training and information campaigns on doping-related issues; research activities of the official...