Author, as appears in the article.: Monserrate-Gómez, S; Rubio-Rico, L; Cuesta-Martínez, R; Raventós-Torner, RD; Roca-Biosca, A; de Molina-Fernández, I
Department: Infermeria
URV's Author/s: De Molina Fernandez, Maria Inmaculada / Roca Biosca, Maria Alba / Rubio Rico, Maria Lourdes
Keywords: Sport Physical activity Immigrants Culture Community health promotion
Abstract: The current state of knowledge indicates that regular sports practice helps prevent and treat non-communicable diseases. The promotion of sport is, therefore, an important community health intervention for maintaining and improving the health of individuals and populations. Culture is identified as being associated with sports practice and sedentary behaviour of ethnic and national minorities. This study aims qualitatively to analyse the potential for culture as a basis for the promotion of sport among immigrants in four regions of Mediterranean Europe. Ten focus groups (n = 62) were conducted with immigrants-adults and young people over the age of 11-and people involved in promoting sport. Thematic content analysis was conducted. The results enabled identifying two major issues: sport as a vehicle for cultural expression and synergies between sport and culture. Accordingly, sport serves to express global, local and non-ethno-national cultural belonging. Regarding synergies, culture and sport feed each other positively and contribute to immigrants' health and cultural well-being. Culture as a strategy for promoting sports practice requires an interdisciplinary approach that involves collaboration between healthcare practitioners and social sciences professionals. There is also a need to use the various axes of cultural definition-global, local and non-ethno-national-of those involved, and for them to take part themselves in designing sports activities. Moreover, promoting sport through non-ethno-national axes of cultural definition may help with immigrants' social inclusion, as intercultural relations between migrants and newcomers are promoted.
Thematic Areas: Sociologia i política Serviço social Saúde coletiva Public, environmental & occupational health Public health, environmental and occupational health Psicología Odontología Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Health policy & services Health (social science) Educação física Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas ii Ciências ambientais
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: alba.roca@urv.cat alba.roca@urv.cat lourdes.rubio@urv.cat lourdes.rubio@urv.cat inmaculada.demolina@urv.cat inmaculada.demolina@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3862-0462 0000-0002-3862-0462 0000-0002-1429-4455 0000-0002-1429-4455
Record's date: 2024-03-09
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article-abstract/38/1/daac202/7026243?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Health Promotion International. 38 (1):
APA: Monserrate-Gómez, S; Rubio-Rico, L; Cuesta-Martínez, R; Raventós-Torner, RD; Roca-Biosca, A; de Molina-Fernández, I (2023). 'Football and dancing are in our blood': culture promoting sports practice among immigrants in Europe. Health Promotion International, 38(1), -. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac202
Article's DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac202
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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