No images? Click here Your weekly physical activity bulletin08 June 2021 We are working towards improving the health and wellbeing of the nation through sport, exercise and physical activity. For more information on our work visit our website or follow us on Twitter @NCSEM_PAnews Public lecture: Obesity, ethnicity and COVID-19 – One year onThis public lecture will be delivered by Cameron Razieh, Epidemiologist and Statistician working at the Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Leicester on Thursday 1st July 2021. The talk will discuss the relationship between obesity, ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes and what we have learnt a year on from the start of the pandemic. Evidence has previously reported that minority ethnic groups, particularly South Asian and black African or Caribbean populations, are at an increased risk of COVID‐19 and resulting complications. Obesity is also an established risk factor for COVID-19 outcomes, but less is known about the interaction between obesity and ethnicity and whether the strength of associations observed with obesity remain consistent across ethnic groups and whether this may contribute to the increased risk seen in ethnic minority groups. This event will take place online. It is free of charge and open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Call for participants in new study investigating deselectionResearchers from Loughborough University are looking to recruit participants that have experienced deselection for a new study. The project will investigate high performance and World Class Performance athletes’ experiences of the process in both individual and team sports. “Deselection is a process just like selection – though they represent the opposite sides of a coin,” commented project supervisor, Professor Sophia Jowett. “Deselection has negative connotations attached to it and has usually a negative emotional impact on both the athlete who receives it and the coach who often delivers it. “Nonetheless, deselection like selection is part of the process of competitive sport – a part that every athlete is very likely to experience in one way or another. We want to know more about deselection as it currently occurs in high performance sport.” Promoting cycling can save lives and advance health across EuropeOn World Bicycle Day, celebrated on 3 June, the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights a new master plan that calls countries to acknowledge cycling as an equal mode of transport and to double the level of cycling by 2030. The Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion provides a set of recommendations to reallocate space for cycling and walking, improve active mobility infrastructure, increase cyclist and pedestrian safety to reduce fatalities, develop national cycling policies and integrate cycling into health policies and urban and transport planning. Cycling can contribute to improving the environment as well as people’s health, safety and overall quality of life. Each year, about one million deaths in the WHO European Region are attributed to insufficient physical activity. Increasing the level of cycling can help to prevent these deaths. The Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion, endorsed by 56 countries of the pan-European region in May, supports this goal. During the pandemic, cycling emerged as a viable mobility option that enables physical distancing, relieves the burden on public transport and helps people to meet the minimum requirement for daily physical activity. Many countries have seen an increase in bicycle usage and developed new initiatives to support cycling that are opening the door for new, lasting policies. Parasport classification LEXI website launchedA new website, LEXI GLOBAL, has been launched to explain every class in every sport across parasport competitions using a single integrated graphics system, known simply as LEXI. LEXI provides insight into classification, allowing a non-expert to understand the how and why, both quickly and easily when watching parasport. LEXI GLOBAL is aimed at four different user groups.
The website is free to use and can also send classification explanation information to third party websites. Although originally developed for television, LEXI is a multiplatform tool that can be used for classification online, in-venue, digital and in print. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive it either via the SSEHS Active website or the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (East Midlands) website. Read our privacy policy. |