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      Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in movement volunteering programmes

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          The recent phenomenon of movement volunteering programmes is a form of ‘fitness philanthropy’ that combines exercise with volunteering in order for physical activity to generate a more widely shared set of benefits. These newest practices of fitness philanthropy radically rework both exercise and volunteering through the ways in which these come together and take place outdoors and in the everyday spaces of the street or community. The paper explores these new practices through the movement volunteering programme ‘GoodGym’, in relation to the concept of ‘healthy publics’. Fieldwork comprised ethnography, including participant observation, interviews, go-along interviews, conversations, photography and an end of fieldwork discussion workshop. We focus on the experiences of three different constituencies in GoodGym: the volunteers; the participants and passers-by; the space and atmosphere. The formation of these dynamic, multiple and shifting healthy publics emerge through the complex intersections of several processes. We draw particular attention to the centrality in the new fitness philanthropy practices of visibility and spectacle, sociality and merging mobilities in constituting healthy publics.

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            The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health.

            Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. We summarise present global efforts to counteract this problem and point the way forward to address the pandemic of physical inactivity. Although evidence for the benefits of physical activity for health has been available since the 1950s, promotion to improve the health of populations has lagged in relation to the available evidence and has only recently developed an identifiable infrastructure, including efforts in planning, policy, leadership and advocacy, workforce training and development, and monitoring and surveillance. The reasons for this late start are myriad, multifactorial, and complex. This infrastructure should continue to be formed, intersectoral approaches are essential to advance, and advocacy remains a key pillar. Although there is a need to build global capacity based on the present foundations, a systems approach that focuses on populations and the complex interactions among the correlates of physical inactivity, rather than solely a behavioural science approach focusing on individuals, is the way forward to increase physical activity worldwide.
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              Come take a walk with me: the "go-along" interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being.

              This paper aims to serve as a four-part introductory primer on the "go-along" qualitative interview methodology for studying the health issues of neighborhood or local-area contexts. First, I describe the purpose and different types of implementation of go-alongs. Second, I discuss its advantages for studying how place may matter for health (particularly in terms of the participants) and how it may facilitate researchers' understandings of local knowledge as well as the social and physical context. Third, I consider the method's strengths and limitations for population health research on neighborhoods and local areas. Fourth and finally, I discuss how go-alongs may be used in tandem with other qualitative and quantitative approaches for multi-method research. Informing this discussion are my own experiences with a particular type of go-along interview-"walk-along" interviews-during a study of social capital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin neighborhoods.
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                Journal
                101685620
                Palgrave Commun
                Palgrave Commun
                Palgrave communications
                2055-1045
                28 December 2020
                13 May 2020
                08 February 2021
                : 6
                : 94
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Anthropology and The Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK
                [2 ]Department of Geography and The Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK
                [3 ]Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK
                Author notes
                [] Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to S.A. s.j.atkinson@ 123456durham.ac.uk
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-935X
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7186-0644
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0544-0158
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                EMS109274
                10.1057/s41599-020-0473-9
                7116702
                02739064-6202-486b-9226-bbe5d571560f

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