Oxford Textbook of Children's Sport and Exercise Medicine

Herausgeber: Armstrong, Neil; Mechelen, Willem van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An evidence-based text covering the key aspects of paediatric sport, health and exercise science and medicine. Designed to challenge and support, this fully updated textbook presents complex scientific and medical material in an accessible manner.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Textbook
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 226mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 2177g
• ISBN-13: 9780198757672
• ISBN-10: 0198757670
• Artikelnr.: 48208720

Autorenporträt

Neil Armstrong is Professor of Paediatric Physiology at the University of Exeter. He was Head of the School of Postgraduate Medicine before establishing the School of Sport and Health Sciences and serving as its Founding Head. Neil has authored and edited 16 books and published over 300 papers and book chapters on paediatric physiology, and his research has featured internationally in around 300 television and radio programmes, including Panorama and Dispatches. Neil's research also won the first Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. Neil chaired the Sport Science and Sport-Related Studies Panel in the first two UK Research Assessment Exercises (now the Research Excellence Framework). He is a former Chair of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and a former President of the Physical Education Association of the United Kingdom (PEAUK). Willem van Mechelen is Head of the Department of Public and Occupational Health at the VU University Medical Centre and Co-Director of the EMGO+ Institute of VU University Medical Centre. He is also the Chairman of the research centre Body@Work. Having previously worked as a high school physical education teacher, he began his academic career at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He has a PhD in Human Movement Sciences, and is now a professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine at the VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam.