Theme a introduction

The Handbook’s first theme focuses on the concepts and contexts that inform and frame physical activity policy. It contains four original contributions and two reprinted discussions and collectively addresses how policy for physical activity has been shaped, has come to be understood and the key disciplines and discourses with which it intersects and overlaps. Discussions focus on the influence and responsibility of individuals and structures or systems in relation to physical activity, claims about the extent to which physical activity is, or should be, the norm and the positioning of physical activity policy within discourses of medicine, wellbeing and public health.