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(2015) An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-history to our post-modern world, Dordrecht, Springer.
In terms of health, it seems likely that human life expectancy will continue to increase slowly over the next 50 years. However, the big challenge for the next generation of Exercise Scientists will be to find ways of matching this with a corresponding development of fitness, so that longevity yields a corresponding increase in quality-adjusted and active life expectancies. Major sport events will also face increasingly critical analysis of their costs in relation to possible gains of population fitness and health.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11671-6_10
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Shephard, R. J. (2015). Future directions in health and fitness, in An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-history to our post-modern world, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1065-1077.
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