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mental health
physical inactivity
disability sport provision
obesiity
gender inequality
article 3=Lack of access. Girls have 1.3 million fewer opportunities to play high school sports than boys have. Lack of physical education in schools and limited opportunities to play sports in both high school and college mean girls have to look elsewhere for sports,https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/do-you-know-the-factors-influencing-girls-participation-in-sports/
article 1=In team sport, 7% more men than women play, and there is a shocking 22% gap between girls and boys https://womeninsport.org/creating-change/policy-positions/sexism-in-sport/
article 1=Studies have shown that 20 to 30 minutes of exercise each day can make people feel calmer. This calmness continues several hours after exercise,https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/benefits-of-sports-for-mental-health
article 2=Physical activity is commonly shown to improve mental health, as suggested by evidence that shows a 20-30% reduction in depression in adults who participate in physical activity daily (Pierce, et al., 2018),https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-Sport/?p=2748
article 3=It is recommended that the average adult should do between 75 and 150 minutes of exercise a week,data shows that up to 35% of elite athletes suffer from a mental health crisis which may manifest as stress,https://www.athletesforhope.org/2019/05/mental-health-and-athletes/
article 1=Results showed that the prevalence of overweight was 30.5% ‘before’ the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased to 34.9% ‘during’ the pandemic; that means 4.4% of the participants significantly gained weight after the pandemic inception,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947397/
article 2=Playing in three or more sports per year cut risk of overweight or obesity by 27% compared with no participation,https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/obesity/33750
article 3=Some 47% of children were active for an average of more than 60 minutes per day before the pandemic, but amidst lockdown, the proportion of children doing this and meeting the CMO’s guidelines for physical activity, has fallen drastically to just 19%.,https://www.sportengland.org/blogs/using-sport-and-physical-activity-tackle-obesity
article 1=One in four of us do fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity a week, while a staggering 1 in 6 deaths is caused by inactivity.https://www.sportengland.org/research-and-data/research/inactive-people#:~:text=The%20figures%20on%20inactivity%20are,deaths%20is%20caused%20by%20inactivity.
article 2=People who are insufficiently active have a 20% to 30% increased risk of death compared to people who are sufficiently active,https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
article 3=, 19.3 percent of the U.S. population was engaged in sports and exercise each day in 2019,https://www.statista.com/topics/1749/physical-activity/#topicOverview
article 1=Our Active Lives Adult Survey data shows disabled people are almost twice as likely to be physically inactive (43%)https://www.sportengland.org/research-and-data/research/disabled-people
article 2=78% of disabled people say their condition stops them partaking in sports, mostly due to “low awareness” and “fears about safety and risk”https://defiantsports.org.uk/disability-as-a-barrier-to-physical-activity-activity-alliance-disability-and-activity-survey-2022/
article 3=64% of UK sports clubs don't have suitable equipment to cater to their disability audienceshttps://www.inclusivesportsacademy.org/post/how-inclusive-sports-is-breaking-down-statistics
As recently as 2015, 40–41% of women in the sports industry reported facing gender discrimination
Only 7% of women in sports say they’ve reported incidents of sexism
Women comprise just 18% of qualified coaches and 9% of senior coaches.