Identify effective messages, messengers, and channels for influencing policy and strategy across different sectors.
Background
Sport England seeks to tackle inequalities in sport and physical activity, providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind, and helping to remove the barriers to activity.
Understanding how people think, feel, experience, and behave towards sport and physical activity is fundamental in shaping inclusive, equitable policies and practices. We need greater evidence on what works so we know how best to do this.
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- population growth
- ecosystem
- health
- medical condition
- mental health and disorder
- government health care
- lifestyle and leisure
- exercise and fitness
- mental wellbeing
- politics
- government
- government budget
- government department
- local government and authority
- government policy
- economic policy
- education policy
- environmental policy
- healthcare policy
- housing and urban planning policy
- local government policy
- lobbying
- science and technology
- geography
- civil engineering
- society
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- demographics
- population and census
- discrimination
- family
- adults
- children
- disabilities
- gender
- poverty
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