With the slogan ‘More active people for a healthier world’, WHO has developed a 20-point action plan aiming at activating ‘everyone, everywhere, everyday’.

Exposure to repetitive concussions in sports is associated with an increased risk of symptoms of common mental disorders, according to recent research.

The growing awareness of health risks, especially concussions, in American football can have caused a “notable decline” in football participation among American high school boys, says Roger Pielke Jr. in this essay.

The first draft of the World Health Organisation’s Global Action Plan has been released and WHO now gathers feedback through the launch of an open consultation process.

The spreading of Zika virus should lead to a postponement of the Olympic Games in Rio this summer, a group of scientists argues. Official recommendations maintain that there is no need for such drastic precautions.

Hosting the 2020 Olympics should not only raise Japan’s international profile, it should also make its people healthier. Despite rating well internationally when it comes to sports participation, Japan wants to do even better.

The London Olympics in 2012 were supposed to inspire a whole generation to take up sport. It did not happen and the UK government is now giving its entire sports strategy an overhaul in a nationwide consultation process.

With a new report, the ‘Inactivity Time Bomb’, ISCA continues the NowWeMove campaign aiming at getting 100 million Europeans moving more by 2020.